Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Crane, George W.

This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Nightingale, Earl

12.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

14.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

15.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

16.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

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.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

19.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Greek

22.

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

Ovid

23.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Wicker, John

27.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

28.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

32.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

33.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

36.

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

37.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

38.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

40.

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.

41.

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

Sayle, Alexi

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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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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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Hoffer, Eric