Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Sharp, Tom

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Herbert, Jack

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Young, Brigham

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

10.

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

Proverb, Greek

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Publilius Syrus

18.

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

Proverb, Arabian

19.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

21.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

22.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

23.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

24.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Iacocca, Lee

26.

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

27.

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

Branson, Richard

28.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

32.

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

33.

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

34.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

35.

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.

36.

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

Ovid

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

40.

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

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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.

42.

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

Williamson, John

43.

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

Wicker, John

44.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

45.

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

46.

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

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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

48.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

49.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

50.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von