Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

- Patty Hansen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Rowland, Helen

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Kennedy, John F.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Herbert, Jack

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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

Landers, Ann

10.

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

Publilius Syrus

11.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

12.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

13.

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

Williamson, John

14.

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

Nightingale, Earl

15.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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.

17.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

18.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

19.

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

Buffett, Warren

20.

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

21.

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

Forbes, B. C.

22.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

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

27.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

29.

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.

30.

A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

31.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

32.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

36.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

37.

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

38.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

39.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

40.

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

41.

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

Koch, Sally

42.

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

Barton, Bruce

43.

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

Hill, Napoleon

44.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

45.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Nightingale, Earl

49.

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

50.

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