Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Landers, Ann

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Sharp, Tom

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.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

10.

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

Crane, George W.

11.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

12.

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

13.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

14.

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

15.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

16.

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.

17.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

18.

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

Branson, Richard

19.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

20.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

21.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

23.

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

24.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

25.

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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

27.

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

Buffett, Warren

28.

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

Proverb, Greek

29.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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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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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

38.

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

39.

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

40.

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

Flanders, Alberta

41.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

42.

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

43.

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

Young, Brigham

44.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

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

Iacocca, Lee

46.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

47.

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

Williamson, John

48.

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

49.

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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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