Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You must make your own opportunities.

- Gough, John B.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

4.

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

5.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

6.

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

7.

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

Branson, Richard

8.

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

Proverb, Arabian

9.

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

10.

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

11.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

12.

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

13.

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

14.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

15.

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

Wicker, John

16.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

17.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

18.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

19.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

20.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

21.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

24.

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

Sayle, Alexi

25.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

33.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

36.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

37.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

38.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

39.

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

Young, Brigham

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Buffett, Warren

43.

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.

44.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

45.

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

46.

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

Rowland, Helen

47.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John