Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

- Lehmann, Rosamond

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

Menace, Dennis the

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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.

10.

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

Ovid

11.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

12.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

13.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Williamson, John

15.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

16.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

18.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

19.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

20.

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

21.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

22.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

23.

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

24.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

25.

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

26.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

27.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

28.

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

Horace

29.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

30.

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

31.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

33.

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

34.

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

Flanders, Alberta

35.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

36.

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

37.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wicker, John

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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

42.

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

43.

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

Buffett, Warren

44.

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.

45.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Crane, George W.

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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.