Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Horace

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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

Herbert, Jack

10.

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

Proverb, Greek

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

13.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

14.

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

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.

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

17.

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

18.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

19.

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

20.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

21.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

22.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

23.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

24.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

25.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

26.

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

Flanders, Alberta

27.

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

28.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

29.

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

30.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

31.

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

32.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

33.

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

Wicker, John

34.

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

Herold, Don

35.

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

36.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

37.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

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

39.

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

Rowland, Helen

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

44.

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

Sharp, Tom

45.

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

Koch, Sally

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

50.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.