Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Crane, George W.

11.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

12.

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

Hendricks, Howard

13.

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

Flanders, Alberta

15.

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

16.

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.

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

18.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

19.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

20.

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

21.

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

Branson, Richard

27.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

28.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

29.

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

30.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

32.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

33.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

34.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

35.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

36.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

37.

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

38.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

39.

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

40.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Collier, Robert

42.

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

43.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

44.

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

45.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

46.

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

Proverb, Greek

49.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.