Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Flanders, Alberta

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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

Barton, Bruce

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peters, Thomas J.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

10.

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

11.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

Horace

13.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

14.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

15.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

16.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

17.

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

18.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

19.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

20.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

21.

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.

22.

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

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

25.

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

26.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

30.

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.

31.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

33.

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

34.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

35.

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

Landers, Ann

36.

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

37.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

38.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

39.

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

40.

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

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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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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

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

Wicker, John

45.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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