Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

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

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

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

Ovid

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

Nightingale, Earl

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Collier, Robert

10.

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

11.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

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

Hill, Napoleon

14.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

15.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

16.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

17.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

18.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

19.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

23.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

24.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

28.

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

Nightingale, Earl

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

33.

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

34.

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

Herold, Don

35.

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

36.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

37.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

38.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

39.

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

Barton, Bruce

40.

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

41.

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

Rowland, Helen

42.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Sharp, Tom

47.

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

Crane, George W.

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