Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Lehmann, Rosamond

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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.

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

Forbes, B. C.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buffett, Warren

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

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

10.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

11.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

12.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

15.

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

18.

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

19.

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

Crane, George W.

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Menace, Dennis the

23.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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

25.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

26.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

27.

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

Ovid

28.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Iacocca, Lee

32.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

33.

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

Williamson, John

34.

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

Sharp, Tom

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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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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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

Proverb, Arabian

38.

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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Proverb, Greek

41.

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

42.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

43.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

44.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wicker, John

49.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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