Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Koch, Sally

14.

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

15.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

Ovid

21.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

22.

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

23.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

24.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

25.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Young, Brigham

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, Greek

31.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

32.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

33.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

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

Wicker, John

35.

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

36.

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

Herold, Don

37.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

38.

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

39.

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

40.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

41.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

42.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

43.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

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

Crane, George W.

45.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.