Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When fortune knocks open the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Crane, George W.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

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

Wicker, John

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

Branson, Richard

10.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

12.

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

Herbert, Jack

13.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

15.

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

Nightingale, Earl

16.

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

17.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

18.

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

Sharp, Tom

19.

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.

20.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

21.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

22.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Koch, Sally

26.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

27.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

28.

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

Herold, Don

29.

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

Kennedy, John F.

30.

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

31.

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

Nightingale, Earl

32.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

34.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

35.

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

36.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

37.

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Hendricks, Howard

42.

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

Menace, Dennis the

43.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

44.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

45.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

46.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

47.

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

48.

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

49.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

50.

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