Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

10.

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

11.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

12.

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

13.

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

Crane, George W.

14.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

16.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

17.

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

Barton, Bruce

18.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

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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.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

22.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

23.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

24.

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

25.

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.

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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.

27.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

29.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

30.

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

32.

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

Hendricks, Howard

33.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

34.

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

35.

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

36.

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

37.

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

Rowland, Helen

38.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

39.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

40.

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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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.

42.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

43.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

44.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

Herold, Don

47.

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

48.

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

Collier, Robert

49.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

50.

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

Forbes, B. C.