Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

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

2.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

3.

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

Landers, Ann

4.

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

Menace, Dennis the

5.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

6.

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

Hoffer, Eric

7.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

15.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

16.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

17.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

21.

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

Rowland, Helen

22.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Iacocca, Lee

24.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

25.

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.

26.

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

Hill, Napoleon

27.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

28.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

32.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

34.

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.

35.

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

Herold, Don

36.

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.

37.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

38.

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

Proverb, Greek

39.

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

40.

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

Ovid

41.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

42.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

44.

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

45.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

46.

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

Herbert, Jack

47.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

48.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.