Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

- Brown, Gene

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

10.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

11.

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

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

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

14.

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

Flanders, Alberta

15.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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.

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

18.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

19.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

20.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

23.

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

24.

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

Rowland, Helen

25.

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

Horace

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Branson, Richard

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Collier, Robert

34.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

35.

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

Proverb, Greek

36.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Forbes, B. C.

40.

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.

41.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

42.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

43.

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

Iacocca, Lee

44.

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

45.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

48.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

49.

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

50.

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