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

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

Sayle, Alexi

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Wicker, John

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

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

Koch, Sally

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

10.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

11.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

12.

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

13.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

15.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

16.

Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

17.

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

18.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

19.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

20.

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

Crane, George W.

21.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

22.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

Landers, Ann

24.

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

Proverb, Arabian

25.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

27.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

28.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

29.

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

Proverb, Greek

30.

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

31.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

32.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

33.

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

Hendricks, Howard

34.

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.

35.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

36.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

37.

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

38.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

39.

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

40.

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

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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

42.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

43.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

45.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

46.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

47.

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

48.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

50.

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