Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

10.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

11.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

12.

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

Herold, Don

13.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

14.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

15.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

16.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Horace

20.

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

Young, Brigham

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

27.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

28.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

29.

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

30.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

31.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

32.

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

Wicker, John

33.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

34.

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

35.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

Ovid

43.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

48.

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

49.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

50.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.