Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

- Benington, Lucy

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

12.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

17.

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

18.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

29.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

34.

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

43.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

46.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James