Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Nightingale, Earl

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Hoffer, Eric

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

10.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

11.

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

Collier, Robert

12.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

13.

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

14.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

15.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

16.

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

Barton, Bruce

17.

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.

L'Amour, Louis

18.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

19.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

20.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

22.

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

23.

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

Williamson, John

24.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Iacocca, Lee

27.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Flanders, Alberta

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

34.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

35.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

37.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

38.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Herbert, Jack

43.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

44.

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

Herold, Don

45.

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

Nightingale, Earl