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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Herbert, Jack

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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.

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

Williamson, John

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

10.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

11.

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

12.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

13.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

14.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

15.

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

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

17.

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

18.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

19.

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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

21.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

22.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

24.

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

25.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

26.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

27.

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

Crane, George W.

28.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

29.

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

30.

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

Sharp, Tom

31.

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

Branson, Richard

32.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

33.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

34.

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

35.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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

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

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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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

44.

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

Rowland, Helen

45.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

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