Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

10.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

11.

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

12.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

14.

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

Sharp, Tom

15.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

17.

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

18.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

21.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

22.

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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

25.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

26.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

27.

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

28.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

29.

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.

30.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

31.

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

32.

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

Branson, Richard

33.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

34.

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

Landers, Ann

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

38.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

40.

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

Ovid

41.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

42.

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

43.

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

Herold, Don

44.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

45.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

46.

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

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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

48.

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

49.

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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor