Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Menace, Dennis the

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Young, Brigham

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

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Ovid

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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.

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.

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

10.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

11.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

12.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

13.

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

Sharp, Tom

14.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

Horace

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

21.

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

Hendricks, Howard

22.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Flanders, Alberta

25.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

26.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

27.

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

Branson, Richard

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

30.

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

31.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

36.

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

37.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

38.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

39.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

40.

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

Nightingale, Earl

41.

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

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

44.

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

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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

49.

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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey