Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Be an opener of doors.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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.

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.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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

10.

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

11.

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

Sayle, Alexi

12.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

13.

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

Forbes, B. C.

14.

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

Wicker, John

15.

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

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

18.

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

19.

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

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

Williamson, John

21.

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

Hoffer, Eric

22.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

23.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

25.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

27.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

28.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

29.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

30.

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.

31.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

32.

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

Nightingale, Earl

33.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

34.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

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

Landers, Ann

40.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

41.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

42.

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

Collier, Robert

43.

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

44.

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

Iacocca, Lee

45.

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

46.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

47.

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

Kennedy, John F.

48.

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

49.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.