Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

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

Crane, George W.

2.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

3.

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

4.

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

Ovid

5.

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

6.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

7.

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

Herold, Don

8.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

9.

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

Young, Brigham

10.

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

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

12.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

Flanders, Alberta

14.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

15.

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

16.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

17.

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

18.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

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

Menace, Dennis the

21.

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

22.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

23.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

24.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

25.

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

26.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

27.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

28.

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

Sharp, Tom

29.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

30.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

31.

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

Buffett, Warren

32.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

33.

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

Barton, Bruce

34.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

35.

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

36.

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

Publilius Syrus

37.

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

Hill, Napoleon

38.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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.

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

Koch, Sally

41.

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

42.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

43.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke