Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

10.

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

11.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

13.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

14.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

15.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

22.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

23.

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

Wicker, John

24.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

25.

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

Sayle, Alexi

26.

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

27.

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

Williamson, John

28.

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

Sharp, Tom

29.

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

Crane, George W.

30.

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

31.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

32.

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

Young, Brigham

33.

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.

34.

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

Herold, Don

35.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

36.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

37.

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

38.

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

Koch, Sally

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.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

41.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

42.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

43.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

44.

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.

45.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

46.

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

47.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

Nightingale, Earl

50.

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