Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Barton, Bruce

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

10.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

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

12.

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

Iacocca, Lee

13.

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

Proverb, Greek

14.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

15.

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

16.

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

Sharp, Tom

17.

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

18.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Koch, Sally

23.

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

24.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

27.

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

Wicker, John

28.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

29.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

30.

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

Landers, Ann

31.

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

32.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

33.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

34.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

35.

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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

37.

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

38.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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

42.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

43.

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

Nightingale, Earl

44.

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

Williamson, John

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.