Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Sayle, Alexi

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

2.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

3.

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

4.

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

Hill, Napoleon

5.

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

Nightingale, Earl

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

9.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

10.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

11.

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

12.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

13.

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

14.

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

15.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

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

Flanders, Alberta

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

20.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

21.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

22.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

23.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

24.

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

Menace, Dennis the

25.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

26.

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

Branson, Richard

27.

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

Wicker, John

28.

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

29.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

30.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

31.

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

32.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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.

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

Herbert, Jack

35.

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

Young, Brigham

36.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

37.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

38.

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

Kennedy, John F.

39.

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

Barton, Bruce

40.

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

41.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

42.

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

Rowland, Helen

43.

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

Forbes, B. C.

44.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

45.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

47.

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

Horace

48.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

49.

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

50.

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