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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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

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

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Landers, Ann

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

13.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

15.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

16.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Flanders, Alberta

18.

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

19.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

20.

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

21.

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

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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

23.

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

Williamson, John

24.

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

Rowland, Helen

25.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

27.

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

Collier, Robert

28.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

29.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

33.

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

Menace, Dennis the

34.

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

35.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

37.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

38.

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

Wicker, John

39.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

40.

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

41.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

42.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

43.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Branson, Richard

47.

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

Sharp, Tom

48.

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

Horace

49.

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

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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce