Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

12.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Barton, Bruce

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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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Hoffer, Eric

44.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Nightingale, Earl