Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

10.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

11.

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

12.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Flanders, Alberta

16.

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

17.

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

Sayle, Alexi

18.

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

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.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

21.

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

22.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

23.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

24.

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

25.

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

26.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

27.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Buffett, Warren

29.

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

Rowland, Helen

30.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

31.

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

Collier, Robert

32.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

33.

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

34.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

35.

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

36.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

37.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

38.

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

Hill, Napoleon

39.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Publilius Syrus

46.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

47.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

48.

Make the iron hot by striking it.