Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

We must open the doors of opportunity.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Branson, Richard

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Buffett, Warren

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

10.

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

11.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

12.

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.

13.

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

Herold, Don

14.

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

Ovid

15.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

16.

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

Williamson, John

17.

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

18.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

19.

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

20.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

21.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

22.

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

23.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

24.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

25.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

26.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

27.

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

Koch, Sally

28.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

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.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Young, Brigham

40.

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

41.

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

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

46.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

47.

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.

48.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

49.

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

Publilius Syrus

50.

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

Wicker, John