Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

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

Publilius Syrus

2.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

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

4.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

5.

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

6.

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

Nightingale, Earl

7.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

8.

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

9.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

10.

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

11.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

12.

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

13.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

14.

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

Branson, Richard

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Nightingale, Earl

18.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

20.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

21.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Herold, Don

26.

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

Hill, Napoleon

27.

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

Horace

28.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

29.

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

Menace, Dennis the

30.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

31.

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

Hendricks, Howard

32.

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

33.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

34.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

35.

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

36.

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

Wicker, John

37.

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

38.

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

Buffett, Warren

39.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

40.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

41.

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

Collier, Robert

42.

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

43.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

48.

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

Sayle, Alexi

49.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

50.

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