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

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Flanders, Alberta

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Proverb, Arabian

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Ovid

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Rowland, Helen

14.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

18.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

19.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

20.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

21.

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

22.

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

Landers, Ann

23.

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

24.

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

Barton, Bruce

25.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

26.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

27.

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

28.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

29.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

30.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

31.

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

32.

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

Herbert, Jack

33.

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

34.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

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

Nightingale, Earl

36.

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

37.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

39.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

41.

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

42.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

43.

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

44.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

45.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

46.

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

Proverb, Greek

47.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

48.

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

Iacocca, Lee

49.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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