Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity creates desire.

- Proverb, Dutch

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

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

Herbert, Jack

2.

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

3.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

4.

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

Wicker, John

5.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

6.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

7.

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

8.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

9.

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

10.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

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

Buffett, Warren

12.

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

13.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

14.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

15.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

16.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

17.

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

18.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

19.

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

20.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Rowland, Helen

22.

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

23.

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

Young, Brigham

24.

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

Branson, Richard

25.

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

26.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

27.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

28.

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

29.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

30.

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

Landers, Ann

31.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

32.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

33.

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.

34.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

35.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

Herold, Don

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, Arabian

46.

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

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