Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Herbert, Jack

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Branson, Richard

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Young, Brigham

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

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

10.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

11.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

13.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Landers, Ann

15.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

17.

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

Nightingale, Earl

18.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

19.

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

Nightingale, Earl

20.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

21.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

23.

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.

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

Barton, Bruce

25.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

27.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

28.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

29.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Williamson, John

33.

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

34.

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

Publilius Syrus

35.

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

Crane, George W.

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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

Ovid

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

Kennedy, John F.

43.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

45.

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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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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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

Proverb, Greek