Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

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

2.

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

Crane, George W.

3.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

4.

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

Forbes, B. C.

5.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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

10.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

11.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

12.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

13.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

14.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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.

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

Landers, Ann

17.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

18.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

19.

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

Proverb, Greek

21.

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

26.

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

Nightingale, Earl

27.

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

28.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

29.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

32.

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.

33.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

34.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

35.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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

Sharp, Tom

38.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

39.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

40.

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

41.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

42.

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

43.

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

Menace, Dennis the

44.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

45.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

46.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

47.

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

48.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

49.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

50.

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

Ovid