Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Crane, George W.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Young, Brigham

10.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

11.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

12.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

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

14.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

15.

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

Wicker, John

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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.

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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

18.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

19.

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

Ovid

20.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

21.

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

Iacocca, Lee

22.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

23.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Sharp, Tom

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

27.

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

Sayle, Alexi

28.

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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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

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

32.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

33.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

34.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

36.

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

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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

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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

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

41.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

42.

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

Publilius Syrus

43.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

44.

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

Herbert, Jack

45.

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

46.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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.

48.

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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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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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.