Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Branson, Richard

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

10.

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

11.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Greek

14.

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

Young, Brigham

15.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

16.

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

18.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

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

Kennedy, John F.

20.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

22.

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

23.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

24.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

26.

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

Crane, George W.

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Landers, Ann

32.

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

33.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

35.

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

36.

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

Menace, Dennis the

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Herbert, Jack

41.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

42.

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

43.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

44.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

45.

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

Publilius Syrus

46.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

47.

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

Sayle, Alexi

48.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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