Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Ovid

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

10.

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

Proverb, Greek

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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.

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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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

19.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

20.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

21.

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

Herbert, Jack

22.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

23.

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

Forbes, B. C.

24.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

25.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

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

27.

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

Menace, Dennis the

28.

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

Sayle, Alexi

29.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

30.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

31.

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

32.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

33.

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

34.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

35.

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

36.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

37.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

38.

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

39.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

40.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

43.

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

44.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Proverb, Arabian

46.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

47.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

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

Wicker, John

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