Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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.

10.

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.

11.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

12.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Hendricks, Howard

14.

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

15.

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

Young, Brigham

16.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

17.

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

Iacocca, Lee

18.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Arabian

24.

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

25.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

26.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

27.

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

Williamson, John

28.

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

29.

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

Herold, Don

30.

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.

31.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

32.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

34.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

35.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

36.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

37.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

38.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

40.

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

41.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

42.

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

43.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

44.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

45.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

46.

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

47.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

48.

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

49.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

50.