Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Herbert, Jack

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Young, Brigham

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.

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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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.

15.

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

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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

18.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

19.

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

Rowland, Helen

21.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

22.

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

Horace

23.

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

24.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

25.

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Flanders, Alberta

30.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

31.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

35.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

37.

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

Koch, Sally

38.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

39.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

40.

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

Collier, Robert

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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

42.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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.

44.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

45.

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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A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Crane, George W.

49.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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