Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

- Flanders, Alberta

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Sayle, Alexi

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Williamson, John

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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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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

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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 sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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

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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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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

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.