Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Collier, Robert

10.

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

11.

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

Ovid

12.

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

13.

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

Sharp, Tom

14.

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

Flanders, Alberta

15.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

16.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

17.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

18.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

19.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Sayle, Alexi

27.

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

Horace

28.

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

29.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

30.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

31.

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

Proverb, Greek

32.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

34.

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

35.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

36.

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.

37.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Branson, Richard

39.

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

40.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

41.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

42.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

43.

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

44.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

48.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

49.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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

Iacocca, Lee