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

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.

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Young, Brigham

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Horace

10.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Wicker, John

12.

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.

13.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

14.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

15.

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

Flanders, Alberta

16.

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

17.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

19.

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

20.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

21.

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

22.

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

24.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

25.

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

26.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

27.

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

Koch, Sally

28.

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

Williamson, John

29.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

30.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

31.

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

32.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Ovid

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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

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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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

39.

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

Nightingale, Earl

40.

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

Menace, Dennis the

41.

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

Branson, Richard

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

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

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Greek

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German