Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Grade, Lord Lew

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Kennedy, John F.

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.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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

10.

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

Ovid

11.

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

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

14.

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

Koch, Sally

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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

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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 ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

18.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

19.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

20.

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

21.

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

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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

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

Herold, Don

24.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

26.

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

27.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

29.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

30.

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

Nightingale, Earl

31.

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

Herbert, Jack

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Crane, George W.

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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

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

Rowland, Helen

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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

40.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

41.

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

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

Branson, Richard

43.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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