Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Sharp, Tom

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Rowland, Helen

13.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

14.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

15.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

16.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

22.

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

23.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

24.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

29.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

30.

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

Proverb, Greek

31.

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

32.

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

Menace, Dennis the

33.

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

34.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

35.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

36.

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

37.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

39.

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

Herbert, Jack

40.

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

Branson, Richard

41.

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

Collier, Robert

42.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

43.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

44.

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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

47.

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

Young, Brigham

48.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

49.

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

Landers, Ann

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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