Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Make the iron hot by striking it.

- Cromwell, Oliver

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Nightingale, Earl

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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

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

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

Collier, Robert

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

10.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

11.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

12.

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

13.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

14.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

15.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

16.

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

Rowland, Helen

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

20.

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

21.

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

Herold, Don

23.

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.

24.

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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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Buffett, Warren

27.

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

Sayle, Alexi

28.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

29.

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

30.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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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

33.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

34.

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

35.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

37.

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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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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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

40.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

41.

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

Young, Brigham

42.

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

43.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Flanders, Alberta

47.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

48.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

49.

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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.