Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

- Henry J. Kaiser

Best Quotes about Opportunity

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

11.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

12.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

13.

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

Flanders, Alberta

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Ovid

21.

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

22.

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

23.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

24.

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

25.

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

Sharp, Tom

26.

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

27.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

28.

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

Iacocca, Lee

29.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

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.

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

32.

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

33.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

34.

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

35.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

39.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

40.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

41.

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

42.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

43.

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

44.

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

Herbert, Jack

45.

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

46.

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

47.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

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

Herold, Don

49.

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

50.

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