Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Hoffer, Eric

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

10.

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

Crane, George W.

11.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

12.

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.

13.

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

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.

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

Buffett, Warren

16.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

17.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

18.

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

Ovid

19.

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

20.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

21.

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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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.

23.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

24.

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

26.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

27.

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

28.

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

Herold, Don

29.

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

30.

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

Sharp, Tom

31.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

32.

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

33.

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

Koch, Sally

34.

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

Branson, Richard

35.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

36.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

37.

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

Proverb, Arabian

38.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

39.

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

40.

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

Herbert, Jack

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

42.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

43.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

44.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

46.

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

Horace

47.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

49.

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

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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