Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

- Patty Hansen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Wicker, John

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

10.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

11.

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

Barton, Bruce

12.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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

15.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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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.

17.

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

Collier, Robert

18.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

19.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

25.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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

27.

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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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.

29.

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

Hoffer, Eric

30.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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

40.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

44.

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

Horace

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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

47.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Koch, Sally

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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.