Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Flanders, Alberta

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Hill, Napoleon

Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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

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

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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

11.

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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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

13.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, Greek

16.

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.

17.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

18.

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

19.

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

Iacocca, Lee

20.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

21.

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.

22.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

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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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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

26.

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

27.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Kennedy, John F.

31.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

32.

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

Herbert, Jack

33.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

34.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

37.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

39.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama