Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Grade, Lord Lew

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Crane, George W.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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.

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

Collier, Robert

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

10.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

11.

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

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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

13.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

14.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

15.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

16.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

17.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Sayle, Alexi

19.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

20.

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

21.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

Menace, Dennis the

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

28.

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

29.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

30.

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

Hoffer, Eric

31.

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

32.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

33.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

34.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

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.

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

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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

38.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

39.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

40.

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

Forbes, B. C.

41.

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

Wicker, John

42.

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

Flanders, Alberta

43.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herbert, Jack

45.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

46.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Landers, Ann

48.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

49.

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

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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