Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- YoungJr., Whitney

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

2.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

3.

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

Barton, Bruce

4.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

6.

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

Flanders, Alberta

7.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

8.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

9.

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

Nightingale, Earl

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

13.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

14.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

15.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

19.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

20.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

26.

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

27.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

28.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

29.

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

Herbert, Jack

30.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

31.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

32.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

33.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

34.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

35.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

36.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

37.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

39.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

40.

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

41.

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

Wicker, John

42.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

43.

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

Ovid

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

47.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

48.

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

49.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

50.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb