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

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

Nightingale, Earl

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Herbert, Jack

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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

Koch, Sally

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

11.

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

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

Flanders, Alberta

13.

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

Buffett, Warren

14.

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

15.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

16.

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

17.

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

18.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

19.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

20.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

21.

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

Collier, Robert

22.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

23.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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

25.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Williamson, John

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Sayle, Alexi

33.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

34.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

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

Young, Brigham

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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

38.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

39.

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

40.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

41.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

42.

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

Forbes, B. C.

43.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

45.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

46.

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

47.

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

48.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

49.

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

50.

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