Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Be an opener of doors.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Koch, Sally

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

10.

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

Proverb, Greek

11.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

12.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

13.

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

14.

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

Ovid

15.

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

Williamson, John

16.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

17.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

18.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

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

25.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

28.

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

Crane, George W.

30.

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

Barton, Bruce

31.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

32.

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

Nightingale, Earl

33.

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

34.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

35.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

36.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

37.

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.

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

Herbert, Jack

39.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

40.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

41.

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

Herold, Don

42.

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

Landers, Ann

43.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

44.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

45.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Nightingale, Earl

50.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson