Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Branson, Richard

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Koch, Sally

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

10.

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

11.

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

Young, Brigham

12.

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

13.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

14.

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

Nightingale, Earl

15.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

18.

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

19.

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

Sayle, Alexi

20.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

21.

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

22.

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

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

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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

25.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

26.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

27.

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

28.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

Kennedy, John F.

31.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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

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

Herold, Don

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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

42.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

43.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

49.

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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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.