Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Flanders, Alberta

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Ovid

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Sayle, Alexi

10.

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

11.

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

13.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

14.

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

15.

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

Hoffer, Eric

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Herbert, Jack

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

23.

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

24.

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

Buffett, Warren

25.

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

Publilius Syrus

26.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

27.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

28.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

29.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

30.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

31.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

32.

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

33.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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

36.

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

Iacocca, Lee

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

41.

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

42.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.