Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Sharp, Tom

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

10.

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

11.

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

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

14.

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

15.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

17.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

18.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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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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

27.

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

28.

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

Horace

29.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

30.

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

Collier, Robert

31.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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

33.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Ovid

35.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

39.

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

Flanders, Alberta

40.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

41.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

42.

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

Herbert, Jack

43.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

44.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

45.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

46.

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

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

48.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

49.

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

Landers, Ann

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When fortune knocks open the door.