Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

Hill, Napoleon

5.

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

Rowland, Helen

6.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

7.

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

Proverb, Arabian

8.

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

9.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

10.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

11.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

12.

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

Hoffer, Eric

13.

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

14.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

15.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

16.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

17.

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

18.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

19.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

20.

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

21.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Landers, Ann

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

28.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

29.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

30.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

32.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

33.

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

34.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

35.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

39.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

40.

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

Barton, Bruce

41.

Be an opener of doors.