Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Thatcher, Margaret

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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

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

Sharp, Tom

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

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

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

Proverb, Greek

10.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

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

12.

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.

Meir, Golda

13.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

14.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

15.

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

16.

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

Publilius Syrus

17.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

18.

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

Crane, George W.

19.

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

20.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

21.

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

Hendricks, Howard

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

25.

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

26.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

27.

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

28.

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

Nightingale, Earl

29.

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

Ovid

30.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

31.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

35.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

36.

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

37.

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

Herold, Don

38.

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

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

Barton, Bruce

40.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

41.

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

Young, Brigham

42.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

43.

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

Proverb, Arabian

44.

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

45.

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

Iacocca, Lee

46.

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

Rowland, Helen

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi