Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Williamson, John

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

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

10.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

11.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sharp, Tom

16.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

20.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Horace

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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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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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

29.

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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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

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

Collier, Robert

33.

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

34.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

35.

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

Herold, Don

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

37.

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

Buffett, Warren

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

39.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Koch, Sally

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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

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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.

43.

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

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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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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

46.

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

Young, Brigham

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity