Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

- Krishna, Rama

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Crane, George W.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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

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

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

Barton, Bruce

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

10.

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

13.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

14.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

15.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

17.

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

Wicker, John

18.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

19.

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

Williamson, John

20.

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

Nightingale, Earl

21.

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

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

23.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

24.

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

Horace

25.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

26.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

27.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

28.

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

Sharp, Tom

29.

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

30.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

31.

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

Menace, Dennis the

32.

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.

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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

34.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

35.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

36.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

37.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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

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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

40.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

41.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

42.

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 neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

44.

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

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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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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herold, Don

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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

49.

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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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