Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

4.

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

5.

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

Williamson, John

6.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Menace, Dennis the

10.

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

Koch, Sally

11.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

12.

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

Flanders, Alberta

13.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

14.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

15.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

19.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Arabian

23.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

24.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

27.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

28.

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

29.

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

Young, Brigham

30.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

31.

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

Barton, Bruce

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

37.

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

38.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

39.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

40.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

41.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

42.

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

Wicker, John

43.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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.

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

46.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

47.

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

48.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

49.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

50.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson