Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Collier, Robert

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Williamson, John

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Sharp, Tom

12.

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

13.

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

Kennedy, John F.

14.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

18.

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

19.

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

Flanders, Alberta

20.

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

21.

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

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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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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

24.

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

25.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

26.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

27.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

28.

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

Publilius Syrus

29.

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

30.

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

Koch, Sally

31.

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

Ovid

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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

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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

34.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

35.

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

36.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

38.

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

39.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

40.

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.

41.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

42.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

44.

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

Wicker, John

45.

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

46.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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