Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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.

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

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

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

Collier, Robert

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

10.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

11.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

13.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

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.

15.

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

Rowland, Helen

16.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

17.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

18.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Flanders, Alberta

24.

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

25.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

27.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

28.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

29.

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

Crane, George W.

30.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

31.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

32.

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.

33.

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

Wicker, John

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

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

Publilius Syrus

37.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

38.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

39.

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

40.

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

Menace, Dennis the

41.

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

Barton, Bruce

42.

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

Herbert, Jack

43.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

44.

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

50.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey