Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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

Koch, Sally

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

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

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

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.

15.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

16.

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

17.

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

18.

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

19.

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

Horace

20.

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

21.

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

Buffett, Warren

22.

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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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

24.

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

25.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

26.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

27.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

28.

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

29.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

30.

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

Landers, Ann

31.

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

Herold, Don

33.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

34.

Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

35.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

36.

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

Sayle, Alexi

37.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

38.

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

39.

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

Williamson, John

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

41.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

42.

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

Sharp, Tom

43.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

44.

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

Publilius Syrus

45.

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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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

47.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

48.

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

49.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

50.

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