Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You must make your own opportunities.

- Gough, John B.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

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

Collier, Robert

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Herbert, Jack

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

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

14.

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

Wicker, John

15.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

16.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

17.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

18.

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

19.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

20.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

21.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

22.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

23.

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

24.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

25.

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

26.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

27.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

28.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

29.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

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

Iacocca, Lee

32.

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

33.

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

34.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

35.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

36.

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

Hendricks, Howard

37.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

39.

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

Williamson, John

40.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

41.

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

Forbes, B. C.

42.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

43.

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

Ovid

44.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

45.

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

46.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

48.

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

Nightingale, Earl

49.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English