Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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.

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

10.

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

Branson, Richard

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Nightingale, Earl

14.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

16.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

19.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

20.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

Young, Brigham

22.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

24.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Hendricks, Howard

26.

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

Landers, Ann

27.

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

28.

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

Crane, George W.

29.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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.

36.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

37.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

38.

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

39.

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

Sharp, Tom

40.

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.

41.

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.

42.

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

Herold, Don

43.

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

44.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

45.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

46.

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

47.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

48.

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

Williamson, John

49.

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

50.

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