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

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

Herold, Don

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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

Collier, Robert

10.

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

11.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

12.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

13.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Herbert, Jack

15.

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

Buffett, Warren

16.

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.

17.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

18.

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

19.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

20.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

21.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

22.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

23.

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

24.

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

Ovid

25.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

26.

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

27.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

28.

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

29.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

30.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

33.

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

34.

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

35.

A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

36.

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

37.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

38.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

39.

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

40.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

41.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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.

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

44.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Wicker, John

48.

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

Branson, Richard

49.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

50.

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.