Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

- Hendricks, Howard

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Grade, Lord Lew

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Williamson, John

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Wicker, John

11.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

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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

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

15.

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

16.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

17.

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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

19.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

20.

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

Nightingale, Earl

21.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

23.

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

Young, Brigham

24.

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

25.

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

Horace

26.

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

27.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

31.

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

Menace, Dennis the

32.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

33.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

34.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

38.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

40.

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

41.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

43.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

44.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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

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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

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

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

Flanders, Alberta