Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

- Young, Brigham

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

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Hoffer, Eric

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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

Ovid

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

10.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

11.

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

12.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

13.

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

Barton, Bruce

14.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

15.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

16.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

17.

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

Flanders, Alberta

18.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

19.

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

Wicker, John

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

21.

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

22.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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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

25.

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

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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

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

Sharp, Tom

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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

29.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

30.

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

Iacocca, Lee

31.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

32.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

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

Horace

37.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

38.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Landers, Ann

40.

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

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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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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

43.

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

Herold, Don

44.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

46.

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

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

48.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

49.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

50.

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