Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

- Schucman, Helen

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Buffett, Warren

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

10.

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

11.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

12.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

14.

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

Hendricks, Howard

15.

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

Williamson, John

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

19.

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

20.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

21.

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

Forbes, B. C.

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

24.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

25.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

26.

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.

27.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

28.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

29.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

31.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

32.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

35.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Landers, Ann

38.

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

Flanders, Alberta

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Sharp, Tom

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Horace

45.

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

Koch, Sally

46.

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

47.

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

Ovid

48.

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.

49.

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

Proverb, Greek

50.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson