Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When fortune knocks open the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Opportunity

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Sayle, Alexi

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

10.

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

Flanders, Alberta

11.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

12.

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

13.

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

Ovid

14.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

15.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

16.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

17.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

18.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

19.

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

Crane, George W.

20.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

21.

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

22.

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

Forbes, B. C.

23.

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

Young, Brigham

24.

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

Branson, Richard

25.

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

26.

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

Horace

27.

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

28.

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

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.

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

Williamson, John

31.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

32.

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

33.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

34.

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

35.

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

36.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

37.

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

Collier, Robert

38.

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

39.

This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

40.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Buffett, Warren

44.

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

Herbert, Jack

45.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

46.

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

47.

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

Wicker, John

48.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

49.

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

50.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.