Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Flanders, Alberta

10.

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

Ovid

11.

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

12.

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

Crane, George W.

13.

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

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

Proverb, Greek

15.

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

Iacocca, Lee

16.

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

20.

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

Young, Brigham

21.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

22.

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

23.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

24.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

26.

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

Barton, Bruce

27.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

28.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

29.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

30.

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

31.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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

33.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

34.

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

Horace

35.

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

Collier, Robert

36.

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

38.

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

39.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

40.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Wicker, John

43.

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

Kennedy, John F.

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

Herold, Don

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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

48.

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

49.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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