Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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.

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

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Barton, Bruce

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

10.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Arabian

13.

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

Hoffer, Eric

14.

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

15.

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

Publilius Syrus

16.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Forbes, B. C.

20.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

21.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

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

Collier, Robert

23.

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

Wicker, John

24.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

26.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

27.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

28.

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

Branson, Richard

29.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

30.

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

Menace, Dennis the

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Sharp, Tom

34.

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

35.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

36.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

37.

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

38.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

39.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

40.

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

41.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

43.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

44.

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

Buffett, Warren

45.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

46.

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

47.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

50.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius