Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

- Schucman, Helen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Rowland, Helen

10.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

11.

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

Crane, George W.

12.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

14.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

19.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

20.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

23.

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

24.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

25.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

26.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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.

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

Proverb, Greek

29.

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

30.

This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

31.

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.

32.

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

Kennedy, John F.

33.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

34.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

38.

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.

Thatcher, Margaret

39.

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

40.

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

Nightingale, Earl

41.

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

42.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

43.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

44.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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.

48.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

49.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

50.

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

Grade, Lord Lew