Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

- Schucman, Helen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Koch, Sally

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Collier, Robert

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Publilius Syrus

10.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

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

Horace

12.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

13.

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

Flanders, Alberta

14.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

15.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

16.

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

Rowland, Helen

17.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

18.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

20.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

21.

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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

24.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

25.

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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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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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

28.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

29.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

30.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

31.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

32.

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

Young, Brigham

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

38.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

39.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

40.

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

41.

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

Iacocca, Lee

42.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

43.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

44.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

45.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

46.

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

Ovid

47.

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.

48.

A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

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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.

50.

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