Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

- Quixote, Don

Best Quotes about Opportunity

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Branson, Richard

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

10.

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

Young, Brigham

11.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

12.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

14.

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

15.

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

Nightingale, Earl

16.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

20.

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

Flanders, Alberta

21.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

22.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

24.

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

25.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

29.

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

30.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

Hendricks, Howard

32.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

33.

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.

34.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

35.

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

36.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

37.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

38.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

39.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Arabian

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Ovid

45.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

46.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

47.

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

Crane, George W.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.