Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Herold, Don

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

Horace

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

10.

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

Sayle, Alexi

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

14.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

15.

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

Ovid

16.

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

Flanders, Alberta

17.

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

18.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

19.

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

Herbert, Jack

20.

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

21.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

Proverb, Arabian

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

31.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

32.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

33.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

34.

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

35.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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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.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Collier, Robert

40.

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

Landers, Ann

41.

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

42.

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

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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

48.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

49.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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