Opportunity Quotes
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Opportunity always looks better going than coming. Anonymous
Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad. Greek Proverb
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. Samuel Smiles
Our opportunities to do good are our talents. Cotton Mather
Little opportunities should be improved. Francois FTNelon
Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often. Alexi Sayle
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?'' Johnny Carson
Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it. Russel H. Conwell
The right man is the one that seizes the moment. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. Thomas J. Peters
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. Lucy Benington
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. Lee Iacocca
Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things. Anonymous
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. Sara Teasdale
Make the iron hot by striking it. Oliver Cromwell
Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye. Howard Hendricks
Thou strong seducer, Opportunity! John Dryden
Where one door closes, another opens. Don Quijote
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. Bruce Lee
Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it. Eli Ginzberg
You must make your own opportunities. John B. Gough
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand. Charles F. Kettering
Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up. Brigham Young
We must open the doors of opportunity. Lyndon B. Johnson
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity. Baltasar Gracian
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world. Orison Swett Marden
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. Richard Branson
A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push. Anonymous
Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone. Thomas Jones
Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish. Ovid
About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. Herbert Clark Hoover
One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them. Rosamond Lehmann
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. Anonymous
Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them. Charles Caleb Colton
We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot. Tom Sharp
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. Alberta Flanders
Every wall is a door. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised. Warren Buffett
There is far more opportunity than there is ability. Thomas A. Edison
Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out. Grace Speare
Opportunity multiply as they are seized. John Wicker
Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day. Horace
Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. Roy D. Chapin Jr.
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. Rita Coolidge
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. Emily Dickinson
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. Anonymous
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. Woody Guthrie
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them. J. Paul Getty
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. Karl Marx
Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back. Don Herold
Arrange Whatever pieces come your way. Virginia Woolf
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.Benjamin Disraeli
Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. Gore Vidal
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. Helen Keller
Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction. Best of Bits and Pieces
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. Anonymous
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. George W. Crane
Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor. H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. English Proverb
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone. Cuban Proverb
Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open. Anonymous
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through. Jesse Jackson
Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship. Anonymous
Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected. John Wicker
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. Orison Swett Marden
Opportunity makes a thief. Francis Bacon
The back of one door is the face of another. Proverb
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. Margaret Thatcher
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. Jeremy Collier
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand. Bruce Barton
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. Robert Collier
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. Eileen Caddy
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. H. Jackson Brown Jr.
People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning. Dennis the Menace
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity. Helen Schucman
Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity. John F. Kennedy
The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. Helen Rowland
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own ''acres of diamonds.'' Earl Nightingale
Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. Arabian Proverb
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. Eric Hoffer
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. Anonymous
Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come. Anonymous
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. Maria Rilke Rainer
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. Les Brown
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter. B. C. Forbes
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. Golda Meir
Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it. Anonymous
Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs. Anonymous
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. Louis L'Amour
He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes. John Williamson
Plough deep while sluggards sleep. Benjamin Franklin
God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us. Anonymous
A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up. Jack Herbert
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. John Edgar Wideman
The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in. William Taylor Copeland
Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service. Robert Collier
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. Henry J. Kaiser
Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity? Anonymous
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation. Jane Austen
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. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty? Anonymous
Opportunities neglected can never be recovered. Proverb
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. Al Capone
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together. Earl Nightingale
Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one. Kirk Kirkpatrick
Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures. Gene Brown
It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. Whitney, Young Jr.
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. Rama Krishna
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. Joseph Sugarman
Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others. Anonymous
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. Lawrence Downs
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Milton Berle
A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity. Anonymous
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. Charles Caleb Colton
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. John D. Rockefeller
Be an opener of doors. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Napoleon Hill
When fortune knocks open the door. German Proverb
When you have the opportunity, you strike. Rod Laver
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. Eric Hoffer
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. Sally Koch
If you see the bandwagon? you've missed it. James Phillips
As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it! Robert Collier
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources. Marquis De Vauvenargues
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. James Allen
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. Napoleon Hill
Opportunity is lost by deliberation. Publilius Syrus
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. Ann Landers
Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's ''good luck.'' You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking. David J. Schwartz
Opportunity creates desire. Dutch Proverb
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. John Burroughs
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. Orison Swett Marden
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done! William Shakespeare
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. Johann Kaspar Lavater
The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared. Anonymous
To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure. Anonymous
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