Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

10.

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

11.

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

Herbert, Jack

12.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

13.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

15.

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

Kennedy, John F.

16.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

17.

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

Iacocca, Lee

18.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

19.

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

Forbes, B. C.

20.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

21.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Ovid

23.

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

Sayle, Alexi

24.

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

Young, Brigham

25.

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

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

27.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Horace

32.

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

33.

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

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.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

36.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

39.

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

Buffett, Warren

40.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

44.

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

45.

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

Flanders, Alberta

46.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don