Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Collier, Robert

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

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

11.

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

Kennedy, John F.

12.

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

13.

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

Young, Brigham

14.

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

Barton, Bruce

15.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

16.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

17.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

18.

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

19.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

21.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

22.

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

23.

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

Hoffer, Eric

24.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

25.

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

Nightingale, Earl

26.

This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

27.

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

Sharp, Tom

28.

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

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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

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

Williamson, John

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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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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

33.

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

Proverb, Greek

34.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

35.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

36.

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

37.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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

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

Wicker, John

40.

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

Branson, Richard

41.

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.

42.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Rowland, Helen

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.