Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Be an opener of doors.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Flanders, Alberta

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

10.

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

11.

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

12.

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

13.

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

Williamson, John

14.

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

Crane, George W.

15.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

16.

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

Proverb, Greek

17.

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

Horace

18.

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

19.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

20.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

21.

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

Sayle, Alexi

22.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

23.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

24.

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

25.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Hendricks, Howard

33.

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

Landers, Ann

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

35.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

36.

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

37.

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

Publilius Syrus

38.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

39.

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

Forbes, B. C.

40.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

41.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

42.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

45.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

46.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

47.

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

48.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

49.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

50.

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