Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

10.

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

11.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

12.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

13.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

14.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

15.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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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.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

18.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

19.

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

Williamson, John

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

21.

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

22.

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

24.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

25.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

26.

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

Landers, Ann

27.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

28.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

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

33.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

34.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

35.

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

Iacocca, Lee

36.

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.

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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

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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

39.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

40.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

41.

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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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

43.

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

44.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

45.

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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.