Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Williamson, John

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

Menace, Dennis the

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

10.

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

11.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

12.

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

13.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

14.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

16.

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

17.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

18.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

19.

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

20.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

22.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

23.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

24.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

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

26.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

27.

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

Iacocca, Lee

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Kennedy, John F.

31.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

32.

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.

33.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

34.

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

35.

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

Hendricks, Howard

36.

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

40.

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

41.

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

42.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

43.

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

44.

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

Nightingale, Earl

45.

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

Herbert, Jack

46.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Young, Brigham

50.

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