Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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

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

Young, Brigham

10.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

11.

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

Proverb, Greek

12.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

13.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

14.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

16.

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

Hendricks, Howard

17.

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

Nightingale, Earl

18.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

19.

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

20.

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

Kennedy, John F.

21.

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

22.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

23.

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

24.

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.

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

29.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

30.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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

33.

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

Flanders, Alberta

34.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

Hill, Napoleon

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

41.

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

42.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

43.

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

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

45.

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

46.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

47.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

48.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

49.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

50.

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