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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Collier, Robert

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Nightingale, Earl

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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

Forbes, B. C.

10.

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

11.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

12.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

13.

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.

14.

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

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

Horace

16.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

18.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

19.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

20.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

21.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

22.

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

Crane, George W.

23.

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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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.

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

Herold, Don

27.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Publilius Syrus

31.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

32.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

34.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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.

37.

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

38.

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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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

40.

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

Sharp, Tom

41.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

42.

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

Hendricks, Howard

43.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

44.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

45.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

47.

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

48.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

49.

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