Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Herbert, Jack

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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

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

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.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

11.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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

14.

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

15.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

17.

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

18.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

19.

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

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

21.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

25.

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

26.

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

Horace

27.

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

28.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

29.

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

Ovid

30.

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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

32.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

35.

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

36.

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

Flanders, Alberta

37.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

38.

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

39.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

40.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

42.

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

43.

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

Branson, Richard

46.

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

Proverb, Greek

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

48.

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

Crane, George W.

49.

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

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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