Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

10.

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

Barton, Bruce

11.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

12.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

13.

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

Herbert, Jack

14.

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

15.

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

Wicker, John

16.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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.

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.

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

20.

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

21.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

22.

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

Williamson, John

23.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

24.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

25.

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

26.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

27.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

28.

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

29.

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

Iacocca, Lee

30.

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

Koch, Sally

31.

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

32.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

33.

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

34.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

35.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

36.

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

Kennedy, John F.

37.

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

Crane, George W.

38.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

39.

Estefan, Gloria

40.

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

41.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

42.

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

43.

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

Hoffer, Eric

44.

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

45.

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

Rowland, Helen

46.

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.

47.

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

Nightingale, Earl

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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