Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Landers, Ann

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

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Menace, Dennis the

16.

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

23.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Williamson, John

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Ovid

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Young, Brigham

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

50.

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.