Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Grade, Lord Lew

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

2.

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

Iacocca, Lee

3.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

4.

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

Nightingale, Earl

5.

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

6.

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

7.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

8.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

9.

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

10.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

11.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

12.

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

13.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

14.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

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

16.

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

Barton, Bruce

17.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

18.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

19.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Arabian

23.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

24.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

25.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Nightingale, Earl

30.

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

Herold, Don

31.

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.

32.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

33.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

34.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

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

Sayle, Alexi

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Wicker, John

39.

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

Williamson, John

40.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

41.

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

Landers, Ann

42.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

43.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

44.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

45.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

46.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

47.

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

Rowland, Helen

48.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

49.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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