Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

4.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

5.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

6.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

7.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

8.

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

9.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

10.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

11.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

12.

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

Proverb, Greek

13.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

14.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

15.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

16.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

17.

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

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

22.

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

23.

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

Sayle, Alexi

24.

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

25.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

26.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

27.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

28.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

29.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Publilius Syrus

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Iacocca, Lee

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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

Horace

36.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

37.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

38.

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

39.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

40.

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

Ovid

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Rowland, Helen

44.

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

45.

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

46.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

47.

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

Wicker, John

48.

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

Kennedy, John F.

49.

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

50.

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

Edison, Thomas A.