Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Ovid

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.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

11.

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

12.

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

Herbert, Jack

13.

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

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

19.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

20.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

21.

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 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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Sharp, Tom

25.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

26.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

28.

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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

30.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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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

32.

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

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

36.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Koch, Sally

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

42.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

43.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

44.

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 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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Hoffer, Eric

48.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.