Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Crane, George W.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Horace

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

10.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

11.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

12.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

14.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

17.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

18.

Buffett, Warren

19.

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

Rowland, Helen

20.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

21.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

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

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

25.

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

Koch, Sally

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Barton, Bruce

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb, Arabian

38.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

39.

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

Ovid

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Wicker, John

43.

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

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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

45.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

46.

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

47.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

48.

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

49.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

50.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver