Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Wicker, John

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Crane, George W.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

10.

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

11.

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

Horace

12.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

13.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Collier, Robert

15.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

16.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

17.

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

Herold, Don

18.

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

Proverb, Greek

20.

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

Sayle, Alexi

21.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

22.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

26.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

28.

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

29.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

30.

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

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

32.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

33.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

34.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Branson, Richard

38.

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

Kennedy, John F.

39.

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

Iacocca, Lee

40.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Publilius Syrus

43.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

44.

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

45.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

46.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

48.

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

49.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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