Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Little opportunities should be improved.

- FeNelon, Francois

Best Quotes about 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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ovid

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

Williamson, John

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

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

10.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

11.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Koch, Sally

15.

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

16.

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

Nightingale, Earl

17.

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

18.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

19.

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

20.

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

21.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

22.

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

23.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

24.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

25.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

26.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

27.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

28.

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

29.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

30.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

31.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

32.

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.

33.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Publilius Syrus

40.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

41.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

42.

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

Proverb, Arabian

43.

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

44.

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

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.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Horace

50.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod