Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Arabian

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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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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

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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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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Herbert, Jack

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis