Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Flanders, Alberta

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young, Brigham

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

Collier, Robert

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Horace

11.

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

Branson, Richard

12.

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

13.

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

Wicker, John

14.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

15.

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

16.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

17.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

18.

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

Menace, Dennis the

19.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

20.

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

Publilius Syrus

21.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

24.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

25.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

26.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

27.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Williamson, John

31.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

32.

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

33.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

34.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

35.

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

36.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

37.

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

Iacocca, Lee

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

Flanders, Alberta

42.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

43.

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

44.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Crane, George W.

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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

49.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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