Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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

Crane, George W.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Williamson, John

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

10.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Landers, Ann

18.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

19.

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

Nightingale, Earl

20.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

21.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

22.

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

23.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

24.

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

25.

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

Koch, Sally

26.

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

27.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Flanders, Alberta

31.

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

32.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

33.

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

Horace

34.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

35.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

36.

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

37.

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

Sayle, Alexi

38.

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

39.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

40.

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

Proverb, Arabian

41.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

42.

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

43.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

44.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Ovid

48.

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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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.