Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Herold, Don

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

Proverb, Greek

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

14.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

15.

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

16.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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.

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.

19.

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

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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

21.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

23.

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

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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

25.

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

26.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

27.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

28.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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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

30.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

31.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

36.

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

Menace, Dennis the

37.

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

38.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

39.

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

Williamson, John

40.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

41.

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

42.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

43.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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Be an opener of doors.