Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Williamson, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

10.

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

11.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

12.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

13.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

14.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

15.

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

16.

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

Rowland, Helen

17.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

18.

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

Sayle, Alexi

19.

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

Buffett, Warren

20.

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

21.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

22.

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

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

Ovid

24.

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

25.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

27.

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

Collier, Robert

28.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Hoffer, Eric

34.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Barton, Bruce

38.

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

39.

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

40.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

41.

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

Landers, Ann

42.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

43.

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

Nightingale, Earl

44.

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

45.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

46.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

47.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

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