Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

- Proverb, Cuban

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Forbes, B. C.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

10.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

11.

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

Publilius Syrus

12.

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

Kennedy, John F.

13.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

14.

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

15.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

Landers, Ann

17.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

18.

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

Herold, Don

19.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

21.

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

Koch, Sally

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

28.

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

Rowland, Helen

29.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

30.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

31.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

32.

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

33.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

34.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

35.

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

36.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

37.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

38.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

39.

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

40.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

43.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

44.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

45.

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.

46.

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

Sayle, Alexi

47.

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

48.

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

Nightingale, Earl

49.

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.

50.

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

Sharp, Tom