Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Flanders, Alberta

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.

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.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, Greek

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.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

10.

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

11.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

12.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

13.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

14.

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.

15.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

16.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

17.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

18.

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

19.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

20.

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

Collier, Robert

21.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

24.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

25.

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.

26.

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

Horace

27.

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

Herbert, Jack

28.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

29.

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

Forbes, B. C.

30.

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

31.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

32.

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

33.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

Koch, Sally

41.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

42.

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

Herold, Don

43.

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

Publilius Syrus

44.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

46.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

47.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

48.

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

Wicker, John

49.

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

50.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond