Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

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

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

10.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

11.

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

Landers, Ann

12.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

17.

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

Proverb, Arabian

18.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Buffett, Warren

22.

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

Hoffer, Eric

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

27.

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

28.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

29.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

30.

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

Iacocca, Lee

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

34.

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

Hendricks, Howard

35.

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

Herold, Don

36.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

38.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

39.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

40.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

43.

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

Horace

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

47.

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

Herbert, Jack

48.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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