Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

- Patty Hansen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Koch, Sally

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Crane, George W.

15.

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

Nightingale, Earl

16.

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

Wicker, John

17.

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

Herold, Don

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.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

20.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

21.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

22.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

23.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

27.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

28.

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

Young, Brigham

29.

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

30.

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

Barton, Bruce

31.

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

32.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

34.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

36.

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.

37.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

38.

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

39.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

40.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

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

42.

Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

43.

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

Sayle, Alexi

44.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

45.

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

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

47.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

48.

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

49.

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

50.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce