Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

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.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Collier, Robert

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

Proverb, Arabian

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

10.

Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

11.

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

12.

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

Wicker, John

13.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

14.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

15.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

18.

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

Iacocca, Lee

19.

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

20.

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

Nightingale, Earl

21.

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

Ovid

22.

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

23.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

24.

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.

25.

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

Menace, Dennis the

26.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

30.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

31.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

32.

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

33.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

37.

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

38.

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

Rowland, Helen

39.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

40.

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

41.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

42.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

43.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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

45.

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

Landers, Ann

46.

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

47.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

48.

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

49.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Kennedy, John F.