Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

YoungJr., Whitney

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

10.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

14.

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

15.

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

Koch, Sally

16.

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

Iacocca, Lee

17.

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

18.

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

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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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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

21.

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

22.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

23.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

24.

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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

26.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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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

28.

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

Sharp, Tom

29.

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

30.

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

32.

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

33.

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

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

36.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

37.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

38.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

40.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

41.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

42.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

43.

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

Proverb, Arabian

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

45.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Buffett, Warren