Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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

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

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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

11.

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

Hendricks, Howard

12.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

15.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

16.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

17.

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

18.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

22.

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

Forbes, B. C.

23.

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

25.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

26.

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

27.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

28.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

31.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Arabian

35.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

36.

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

37.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Rowland, Helen

39.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Herbert, Jack

43.

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

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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

45.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

46.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

47.

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

48.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herold, Don