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.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

10.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Arabian

13.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

17.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

18.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

19.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

20.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

21.

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

Koch, Sally

22.

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

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.

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

25.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

26.

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

27.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

28.

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

29.

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

30.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

31.

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

32.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

33.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

35.

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

Williamson, John

36.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

37.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

38.

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

Buffett, Warren

39.

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

40.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

41.

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

42.

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

Flanders, Alberta

43.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

44.

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

48.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

49.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

50.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob