Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ovid

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Proverb, Greek

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

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

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

YoungJr., Whitney

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Koch, Sally

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Horace

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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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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Herold, Don

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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