Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

- Schucman, Helen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

10.

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

11.

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.

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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

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

Koch, Sally

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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.

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

19.

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

Iacocca, Lee

20.

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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

22.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

25.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Herold, Don

27.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

28.

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

Buffett, Warren

29.

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

30.

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

Ovid

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

32.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

33.

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

Sayle, Alexi

34.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

35.

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

36.

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

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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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

39.

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

40.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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

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

43.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

44.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

45.

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 right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Landers, Ann

48.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.