Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

10.

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

Crane, George W.

11.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

12.

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

13.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

14.

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

Herold, Don

15.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

17.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

18.

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

19.

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

Branson, Richard

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Forbes, B. C.

23.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

24.

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

Koch, Sally

25.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

26.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

27.

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.

28.

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

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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

30.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

31.

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.

32.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

33.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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

Rowland, Helen

36.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

37.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

38.

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

Ovid

39.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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

41.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

42.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

43.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

44.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

45.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

46.

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

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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.

48.

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.

49.

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

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