Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Sharp, Tom

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

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

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

Ovid

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Horace

10.

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

11.

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

Sayle, Alexi

12.

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

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

Landers, Ann

14.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

15.

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

16.

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

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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

18.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

21.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

22.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

23.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

25.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

26.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

27.

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

Herold, Don

28.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Koch, Sally

34.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

35.

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

Branson, Richard

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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

37.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

38.

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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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

40.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Wicker, John

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

44.

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

Herbert, Jack

45.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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

50.

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