Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Little opportunities should be improved.

- FeNelon, Francois

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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.

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

10.

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

11.

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

Sharp, Tom

12.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

13.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

14.

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

Proverb, Greek

15.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

19.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

23.

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

Horace

24.

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

25.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

27.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

28.

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

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

30.

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

31.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

32.

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

33.

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

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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.

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

Flanders, Alberta

37.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Opportunity creates desire.