Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Hendricks, Howard

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Nightingale, Earl

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Branson, Richard

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

Nightingale, Earl

11.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

12.

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

Sayle, Alexi

13.

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.

14.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

16.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

17.

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

18.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

19.

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

20.

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

Sharp, Tom

21.

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

Collier, Robert

22.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

23.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

24.

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

Herbert, Jack

25.

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

26.

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

27.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

28.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

29.

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

30.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

31.

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

32.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

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

Wicker, John

36.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

37.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Flanders, Alberta

44.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

45.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

46.

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

Barton, Bruce

47.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

48.

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

Proverb, Greek

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb, Arabian