Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Hendricks, Howard

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Young, Brigham

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.

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

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Williamson, John

Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Wicker, John

14.

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

Hendricks, Howard

15.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

16.

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

17.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

18.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

19.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

20.

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

21.

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

Rowland, Helen

22.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

24.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

25.

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

Publilius Syrus

26.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

27.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

28.

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

29.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

30.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

31.

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

Herold, Don

32.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

33.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

34.

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

Ovid

35.

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

Barton, Bruce

36.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

37.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

38.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

39.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

43.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

44.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

45.

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

Horace

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Branson, Richard

50.

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