Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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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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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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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

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

Branson, Richard

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Koch, Sally

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

Wicker, John

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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

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

Young, Brigham

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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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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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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

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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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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 see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Landers, Ann

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Publilius Syrus

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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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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