Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Rainer, Maria Rilke

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Nightingale, Earl

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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 real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Landers, Ann

10.

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

11.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

12.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

13.

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.

14.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

15.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Flanders, Alberta

19.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

20.

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

Proverb, Greek

21.

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

22.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

27.

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

Barton, Bruce

28.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

30.

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

31.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

32.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

33.

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.

34.

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

Horace

35.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

36.

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

37.

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

Koch, Sally

38.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

39.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Young, Brigham

44.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

49.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

50.

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

Herold, Don