Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

- Patty Hansen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Branson, Richard

10.

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

Horace

11.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

12.

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

Young, Brigham

13.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

14.

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

15.

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

Williamson, John

16.

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

Nightingale, Earl

17.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

21.

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

Buffett, Warren

22.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

23.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

25.

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

Herold, Don

27.

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

Proverb, Greek

28.

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Hoffer, Eric

32.

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

33.

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

Rowland, Helen

34.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

35.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

36.

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

37.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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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

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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

40.

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

42.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

43.

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

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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

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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

46.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

47.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

48.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

49.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

50.

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