Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

10.

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

Collier, Robert

11.

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

Koch, Sally

12.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

13.

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

Menace, Dennis the

14.

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

15.

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

Crane, George W.

16.

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

Williamson, John

17.

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.

18.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

19.

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.

20.

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

Wicker, John

21.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

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

23.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

24.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

25.

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

Hendricks, Howard

26.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

27.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

30.

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

Herbert, Jack

31.

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

32.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Horace

40.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

41.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

45.

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

46.

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

Buffett, Warren

47.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English