Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Herold, Don

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

Young, Brigham

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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.

13.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

14.

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

Crane, George W.

15.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

16.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

17.

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

Wicker, John

18.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

20.

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

Nightingale, Earl

21.

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

Sayle, Alexi

22.

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

Hoffer, Eric

23.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

24.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

25.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

26.

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

27.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

28.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

29.

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

30.

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

Buffett, Warren

31.

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

Nightingale, Earl

32.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

33.

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

Flanders, Alberta

34.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

35.

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

Proverb, Arabian

36.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Rowland, Helen

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

42.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

43.

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

Ovid

44.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

45.

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

46.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

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

49.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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.