Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

10.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

11.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Nightingale, Earl

15.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

16.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

18.

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

Williamson, John

19.

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

Horace

20.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

21.

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

22.

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

23.

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

Flanders, Alberta

24.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

28.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

29.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Koch, Sally

34.

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

Ovid

35.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

36.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

37.

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

38.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

39.

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

Buffett, Warren

40.

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

Herbert, Jack

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

44.

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

45.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

46.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

47.

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