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

1.

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

Proverb, Arabian

2.

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

3.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

5.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

6.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

7.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

8.

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

9.

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

12.

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

Wicker, John

13.

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

14.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

15.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

16.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

17.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

21.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

23.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

25.

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

Branson, Richard

26.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

27.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

28.

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.

29.

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

Ovid

30.

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

Nightingale, Earl

31.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

36.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

37.

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

Publilius Syrus

38.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

39.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

40.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

41.

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.

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

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

44.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

45.

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

46.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

47.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

49.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.