Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

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

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

Proverb, Greek

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

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Edison, Thomas A.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Grade, Lord Lew

10.

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

Nightingale, Earl

11.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

12.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

13.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

17.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

18.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

19.

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

20.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

21.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

22.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

23.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

25.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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

27.

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

Sayle, Alexi

28.

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.

29.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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.

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

Branson, Richard

32.

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

Koch, Sally

33.

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

34.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

37.

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

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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

40.

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.

41.

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

Herbert, Jack

42.

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

Herold, Don

43.

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

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

46.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

47.

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

48.

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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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

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch