Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

15.

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

Rowland, Helen

16.

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

Proverb, Greek

17.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

18.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

19.

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

Ovid

20.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

21.

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

Publilius Syrus

22.

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

Hoffer, Eric

23.

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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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

25.

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

Horace

26.

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

27.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

28.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

30.

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.

31.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

32.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

33.

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

Kennedy, John F.

34.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

35.

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

Landers, Ann

36.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

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

38.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

39.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

40.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

41.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

42.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

43.

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

44.

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

Hendricks, Howard

45.

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

Koch, Sally

46.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von