Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Koch, Sally

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

Young, Brigham

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

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

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

10.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

11.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

12.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

13.

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

14.

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

Herbert, Jack

15.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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.

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

18.

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

Horace

19.

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

Sharp, Tom

20.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Forbes, B. C.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

28.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

31.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

32.

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

33.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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.

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

36.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

37.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

38.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

39.

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

Sayle, Alexi

40.

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

41.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

45.

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

46.

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

Kennedy, John F.

47.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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