Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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.

3.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

4.

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

Williamson, John

5.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

6.

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.

7.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

8.

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

9.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

10.

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

Branson, Richard

11.

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

Buffett, Warren

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.

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

Sayle, Alexi

14.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

17.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

18.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

19.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

20.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

21.

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

22.

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

Horace

23.

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

Sharp, Tom

24.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

25.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

26.

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

27.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

28.

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

Herold, Don

29.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

30.

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

31.

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

Landers, Ann

32.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

33.

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

Rowland, Helen

34.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

Young, Brigham

37.

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

38.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

39.

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

40.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

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

Herbert, Jack

42.

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

43.

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

Hendricks, Howard

44.

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

45.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

46.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

48.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

49.

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

50.

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

Nightingale, Earl