Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Branson, Richard

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hoffer, Eric

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

13.

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

14.

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

Nightingale, Earl

15.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

16.

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

Ovid

17.

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

18.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

19.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

20.

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

21.

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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

25.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

27.

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.

28.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

29.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

30.

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

Proverb, Greek

31.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

32.

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

Wicker, John

33.

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

34.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

35.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

36.

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

37.

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

38.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

42.

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

Herbert, Jack

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.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

48.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Grade, Lord Lew