Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Ovid

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Herold, Don

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Flanders, Alberta

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

29.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Landers, Ann

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Herbert, Jack

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Horace

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius