Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Crane, George W.

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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

Proverb, Greek

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

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

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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.

11.

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

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Flanders, Alberta

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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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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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 fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Sayle, Alexi

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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Young, Brigham

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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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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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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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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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

Branson, Richard

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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

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

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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

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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.