Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

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

Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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

10.

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

11.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

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

Horace

16.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

17.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

18.

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

Branson, Richard

19.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

20.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

21.

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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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

23.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

24.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

28.

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

Wicker, John

29.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

30.

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

31.

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

32.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

33.

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

35.

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

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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

37.

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

38.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

39.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

40.

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

41.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

42.

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

44.

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.

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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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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.

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

Rowland, Helen

48.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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