Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

Horace

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

10.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

11.

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.

12.

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

Kennedy, John F.

13.

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

14.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Branson, Richard

19.

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

Proverb, Greek

20.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

21.

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

Koch, Sally

22.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

23.

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

Crane, George W.

24.

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

25.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

27.

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

28.

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.

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

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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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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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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

33.

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

Hendricks, Howard

34.

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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

36.

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.

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

38.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

39.

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

Collier, Robert

40.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

41.

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

42.

This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

43.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

44.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

46.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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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

49.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don