Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

10.

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

Forbes, B. C.

11.

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

Herbert, Jack

12.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

13.

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

14.

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

Menace, Dennis the

15.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

16.

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

17.

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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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

19.

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

20.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

21.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

22.

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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

25.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

26.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

27.

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

28.

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

Koch, Sally

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

32.

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

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

Sharp, Tom

35.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

37.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

38.

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

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

Barton, Bruce

40.

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

Crane, George W.

41.

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

42.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

43.

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

Herold, Don

44.

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

45.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

46.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Horace

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois