Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Ovid

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

10.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

11.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

12.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

13.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

14.

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

15.

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

Herold, Don

16.

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

17.

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

18.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

19.

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

20.

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.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

23.

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

24.

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

Sayle, Alexi

25.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

26.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

27.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

28.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

29.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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.

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

32.

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

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

Herbert, Jack

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

37.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

39.

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

40.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Branson, Richard

42.

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

43.

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

Koch, Sally

44.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

46.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

48.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

49.

Make the iron hot by striking it.