Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

- Phillips, James

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sayle, Alexi

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

11.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

13.

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

14.

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

15.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

16.

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

Forbes, B. C.

17.

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

Menace, Dennis the

18.

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

19.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

20.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

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

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One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

25.

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.

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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

27.

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.

28.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

29.

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

30.

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Iacocca, Lee

34.

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

Flanders, Alberta

35.

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

36.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

37.

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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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

39.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

40.

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

41.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

42.

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

Collier, Robert

43.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

44.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

46.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

48.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

49.

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

50.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo