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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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

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

Williamson, John

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

10.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

11.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

12.

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

Rowland, Helen

13.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

14.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

15.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

16.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

17.

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

Publilius Syrus

18.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

22.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

26.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

27.

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

Koch, Sally

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.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

31.

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

Hoffer, Eric

32.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

33.

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

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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

35.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

36.

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

Iacocca, Lee

37.

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

Sayle, Alexi

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

42.

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

Herbert, Jack

43.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

44.

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

45.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

46.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

47.

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

48.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Arabian