Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When fortune knocks open the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Publilius Syrus

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

10.

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

11.

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

Ovid

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

15.

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

16.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Williamson, John

20.

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

Menace, Dennis the

21.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

22.

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

Hoffer, Eric

23.

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.

24.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

25.

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

26.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

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

Horace

28.

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

Rowland, Helen

29.

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

30.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Branson, Richard

36.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

37.

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

Landers, Ann

38.

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.

39.

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

Sharp, Tom

40.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

41.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

42.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

43.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

44.

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

45.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

46.

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

47.

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

Nightingale, Earl

48.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

49.

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

50.

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