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

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

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

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

10.

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

Iacocca, Lee

11.

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

12.

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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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.

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

Proverb, Greek

15.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

16.

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

17.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

18.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

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

Rowland, Helen

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

22.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

23.

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

24.

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

Williamson, John

25.

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

Herold, Don

26.

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

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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

28.

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

29.

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

Ovid

30.

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.

31.

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

Horace

32.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

33.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

37.

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

38.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

39.

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

40.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

41.

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.

42.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

46.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

47.

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