Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

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

2.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

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

4.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

5.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

6.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

7.

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

8.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

9.

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

10.

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

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.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

13.

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

14.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

15.

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

Williamson, John

16.

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

Crane, George W.

17.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

18.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

19.

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

Proverb, Greek

20.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

21.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

22.

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

23.

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

Collier, Robert

24.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

25.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

26.

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

27.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

30.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

31.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

32.

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

Nightingale, Earl

33.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

36.

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

Landers, Ann

37.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

38.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

39.

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

40.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

41.

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

Flanders, Alberta

42.

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

Koch, Sally

43.

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

Kennedy, John F.

44.

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

Forbes, B. C.

45.

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

Menace, Dennis the

46.

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

Publilius Syrus

47.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

48.

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

Iacocca, Lee

49.

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

50.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria