Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

- Laver, Rod

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Forbes, B. C.

10.

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

Proverb, Greek

11.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

12.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

13.

Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

14.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

15.

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.

16.

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

Nightingale, Earl

17.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

22.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

27.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

28.

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

29.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

30.

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

Nightingale, Earl

31.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

32.

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

Barton, Bruce

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

37.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Koch, Sally

39.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

40.

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

41.

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

Publilius Syrus

42.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

43.

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

Herbert, Jack

44.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

45.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

46.

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

Sayle, Alexi

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

50.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond