Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Branson, Richard

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

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

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

11.

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

Collier, Robert

12.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

14.

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

Sharp, Tom

15.

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

16.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

17.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

18.

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

Menace, Dennis the

19.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

20.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

21.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

22.

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

23.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

24.

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

25.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

26.

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

27.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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

29.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

30.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

31.

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

Koch, Sally

32.

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

Proverb, Greek

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

39.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

40.

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

Williamson, John

41.

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

42.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

43.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

44.

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

Nightingale, Earl

45.

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.

46.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Iacocca, Lee