Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Koch, Sally

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

Horace

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

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Peters, Thomas J.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

13.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

14.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

15.

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

Hendricks, Howard

16.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

17.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

18.

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

Sayle, Alexi

19.

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

Forbes, B. C.

20.

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

Herold, Don

21.

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

Publilius Syrus

22.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Proverb, Arabian

24.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

26.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

35.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

36.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

37.

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

Buffett, Warren

38.

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

Williamson, John

39.

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

40.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

41.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

42.

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

43.

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

44.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

45.

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

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

Hoffer, Eric

47.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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