Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Nightingale, Earl

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.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

3.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

4.

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

5.

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

Publilius Syrus

6.

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

Sayle, Alexi

7.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

8.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

9.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

10.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

14.

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

Wicker, John

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Kennedy, John F.

18.

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

23.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

24.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

25.

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

Ovid

26.

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

Williamson, John

27.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

28.

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

Collier, Robert

29.

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

30.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

31.

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

32.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

34.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

35.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

36.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

37.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

38.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

39.

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

40.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

41.

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

42.

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

Forbes, B. C.

43.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

44.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

45.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.