Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

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

2.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

3.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

4.

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

Rowland, Helen

5.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

6.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

7.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

8.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

9.

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

Landers, Ann

10.

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

Collier, Robert

11.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

12.

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

Sharp, Tom

13.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

14.

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

15.

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

Menace, Dennis the

16.

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

17.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

18.

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

Crane, George W.

19.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

20.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

21.

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.

22.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

23.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

24.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

25.

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

Hoffer, Eric

26.

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

27.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

28.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

29.

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

Young, Brigham

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

34.

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.

35.

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

Nightingale, Earl

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Iacocca, Lee

40.

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

Herold, Don

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

44.

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

45.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

46.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

47.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

48.

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