Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

2.

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

3.

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

Publilius Syrus

4.

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

Nightingale, Earl

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

8.

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

Proverb, Greek

9.

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

Branson, Richard

10.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

11.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

12.

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.

13.

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

Sharp, Tom

14.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

15.

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

Herbert, Jack

16.

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

17.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Barton, Bruce

19.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

20.

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

21.

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

Crane, George W.

22.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

23.

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.

24.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

25.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

26.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

27.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

28.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

29.

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

Hill, Napoleon

30.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

31.

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

32.

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

33.

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

Rowland, Helen

34.

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

Flanders, Alberta

35.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

36.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

37.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

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

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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