Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Crane, George W.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

2.

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

Proverb, Greek

3.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

4.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

5.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

6.

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

Collier, Robert

7.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

8.

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.

Schwartz, David J.

9.

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

10.

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

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

Iacocca, Lee

12.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

13.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

14.

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

Herbert, Jack

15.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

16.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

17.

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

18.

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

19.

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

20.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Wicker, John

26.

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

Publilius Syrus

27.

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

Landers, Ann

28.

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

Nightingale, Earl

29.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

31.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

32.

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

Nightingale, Earl

33.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

34.

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.

35.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

36.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

37.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

38.

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

Williamson, John

39.

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

Ovid

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

41.

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

42.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Sharp, Tom

46.

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

Hendricks, Howard

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey