Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Sharp, Tom

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

Horace

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.

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

Rowland, Helen

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

Flanders, Alberta

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.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

10.

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.

11.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

12.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

13.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

14.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

15.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

25.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

26.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

27.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

28.

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

Barton, Bruce

29.

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

30.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

31.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

34.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

37.

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

Collier, Robert

38.

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

39.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

44.

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

Koch, Sally

45.

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

46.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

47.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

48.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

49.

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

50.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes