Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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

Williamson, John

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

Collier, Robert

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

11.

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

Proverb, Greek

12.

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

13.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

14.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

15.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

16.

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

Forbes, B. C.

17.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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.

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

20.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

21.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

22.

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

23.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

24.

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

25.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Nightingale, Earl

29.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Arabian

32.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

33.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

34.

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

35.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

36.

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

37.

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

38.

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

39.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

44.

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

Publilius Syrus

45.

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

46.

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

Hendricks, Howard

47.

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

48.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

49.

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

50.

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

Grade, Lord Lew