Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Herbert, Jack

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

11.

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

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

Branson, Richard

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

18.

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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Hill, Napoleon

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

39.

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

Herold, Don

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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 view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Young, Brigham