Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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

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

Crane, George W.

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

10.

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

Williamson, John

11.

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

12.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Grade, Lord Lew

14.

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

15.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

16.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

17.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

18.

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

19.

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

20.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

21.

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

Buffett, Warren

22.

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

Ovid

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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

24.

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

25.

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

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

27.

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

Proverb, Greek

28.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

29.

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

Flanders, Alberta

30.

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

Sayle, Alexi

31.

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

32.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

33.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Young, Brigham

38.

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

39.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

40.

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

41.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

42.

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

Kennedy, John F.

43.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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.

46.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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

49.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Proverb, Arabian