Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

10.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

12.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

13.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

14.

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

15.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

16.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

17.

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

Hendricks, Howard

18.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

19.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

20.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

25.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

Nightingale, Earl

27.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

28.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

29.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

30.

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

Koch, Sally

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Mandino, Og

34.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

35.

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

Sayle, Alexi

36.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

37.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

38.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Publilius Syrus

40.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

41.

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

Menace, Dennis the

42.

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

Wicker, John

43.

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

Herold, Don

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

47.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

48.

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

49.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

50.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward