Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

- Williamson, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Branson, Richard

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Koch, Sally

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

Collier, Robert

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Iacocca, Lee

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

10.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

11.

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

12.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

15.

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

Crane, George W.

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

17.

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

18.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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

20.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

21.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

22.

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

23.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

24.

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

Sharp, Tom

25.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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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

29.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

30.

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

31.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

33.

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

Horace

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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.

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

38.

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

39.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

40.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

45.

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

46.

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

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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

48.

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.

49.

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

Proverb, Greek

50.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli