Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Herold, Don

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herbert, Jack

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

10.

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

Forbes, B. C.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Kennedy, John F.

14.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

15.

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

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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

17.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

18.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

21.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

23.

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

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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

25.

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

26.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

28.

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

Horace

29.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

30.

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.

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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

32.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Flanders, Alberta

36.

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

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

39.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

40.

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

Proverb, Greek

41.

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.

42.

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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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

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

Williamson, John

45.

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

Menace, Dennis the

46.

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

Sayle, Alexi

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Branson, Richard

50.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce