Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Flanders, Alberta

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Collier, Robert

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

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Buffett, Warren

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

10.

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

11.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

12.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

13.

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

14.

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

Iacocca, Lee

15.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

16.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

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.

18.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

19.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

22.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

23.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

24.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

25.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

26.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

27.

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

Branson, Richard

28.

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

Young, Brigham

29.

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

Landers, Ann

30.

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

31.

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

32.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

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

Sharp, Tom

35.

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

36.

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

37.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

38.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

39.

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

Rowland, Helen

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Greek

45.

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

Crane, George W.

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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

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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

48.

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

Williamson, John

49.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

50.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon