Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You must make your own opportunities.

- Gough, John B.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

2.

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

Hoffer, Eric

3.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

4.

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

5.

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

6.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

7.

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

8.

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

9.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

10.

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

11.

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

Horace

12.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

13.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

14.

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

Buffett, Warren

15.

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

Herbert, Jack

16.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

17.

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

18.

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

19.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

20.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

21.

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

22.

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

23.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

24.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

25.

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

26.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

27.

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

Proverb, Arabian

28.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

29.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

30.

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.

31.

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

Sayle, Alexi

32.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

34.

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

Forbes, B. C.

35.

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

Wicker, John

36.

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

Ovid

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

40.

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

41.

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

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

Young, Brigham

43.

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

Herold, Don

44.

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

Sharp, Tom

45.

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

46.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

47.

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

Hendricks, Howard

48.

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

49.

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

Iacocca, Lee

50.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen