Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

- Ginzberg, Eli

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hendricks, Howard

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Sharp, Tom

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.

10.

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

11.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

12.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

13.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

14.

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

Publilius Syrus

15.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

16.

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

Williamson, John

17.

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

18.

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

19.

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

Flanders, Alberta

20.

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

Proverb, Arabian

21.

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

22.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

23.

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

Nightingale, Earl

24.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

Proverb, Greek

26.

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

Ovid

27.

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

Hoffer, Eric

28.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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.

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

31.

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.

32.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

33.

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

34.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

35.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

36.

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

Herbert, Jack

37.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

38.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

40.

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

41.

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.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

43.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

44.

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

46.

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

Branson, Richard

47.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

48.

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

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

Crane, George W.