Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You must make your own opportunities.

- Gough, John B.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Crane, George W.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Williamson, John

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Barton, Bruce

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

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

10.

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

11.

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

Sayle, Alexi

12.

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

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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

14.

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

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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

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

Collier, Robert

18.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

19.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

20.

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

21.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

22.

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.

23.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

24.

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

25.

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

Flanders, Alberta

27.

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

Branson, Richard

28.

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

Horace

29.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

30.

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

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

33.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

34.

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.

35.

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

Ovid

36.

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

37.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Landers, Ann

39.

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

Wicker, John

40.

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

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

43.

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

44.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

45.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

46.

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

47.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

48.

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

Koch, Sally

49.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

50.

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