Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

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

2.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

3.

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

4.

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

Menace, Dennis the

5.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

6.

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

Williamson, John

7.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

8.

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

9.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

10.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

11.

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

Herold, Don

12.

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.

13.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

14.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

15.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

16.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

17.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

18.

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

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

20.

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

21.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

22.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

23.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

24.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

25.

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

Herbert, Jack

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Young, Brigham

30.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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

33.

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

34.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Hendricks, Howard

38.

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

39.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

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

41.

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

Sayle, Alexi

42.

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

43.

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

Nightingale, Earl

44.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

45.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

46.

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