Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

- Brown, Gene

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

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

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

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

Barton, Bruce

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

10.

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

11.

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

Iacocca, Lee

12.

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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

15.

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

Herbert, Jack

16.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

17.

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

Collier, Robert

18.

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

Kennedy, John F.

19.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

20.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

21.

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

Crane, George W.

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

23.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

25.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

26.

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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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 the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Buffett, Warren

32.

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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Every wall is a door.

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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

37.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hoffer, Eric

40.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Flanders, Alberta

43.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

44.

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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Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

46.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

47.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.