Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Hoffer, Eric

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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 multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

13.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

14.

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

15.

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

16.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

17.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

18.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

19.

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

Crane, George W.

20.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

21.

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

Forbes, B. C.

22.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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.

24.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

25.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

26.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

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

Proverb, Arabian

28.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

29.

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

Kennedy, John F.

30.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

31.

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

Hendricks, Howard

32.

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

33.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

34.

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

35.

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

Koch, Sally

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Collier, Robert

39.

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

40.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

41.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

42.

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

Ovid

43.

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

Publilius Syrus

44.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

45.

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

Landers, Ann

46.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

47.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

48.

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

49.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

50.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.