Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Barton, Bruce

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Buffett, Warren

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

12.

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

Crane, George W.

13.

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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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

15.

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

Kennedy, John F.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

19.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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.

21.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

22.

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

23.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

24.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

25.

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

Rowland, Helen

26.

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

Proverb, Greek

27.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

28.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

29.

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

30.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

31.

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

32.

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

33.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

34.

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

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

37.

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

38.

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

Herold, Don

39.

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

40.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

41.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

42.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

43.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

44.

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

45.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

46.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

48.

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

49.

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

Ovid

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

Sayle, Alexi