Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

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

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.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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.

10.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

11.

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

12.

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

Horace

13.

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

Menace, Dennis the

14.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

15.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Buffett, Warren

19.

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

Rowland, Helen

20.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

21.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

23.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

24.

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

Proverb, Greek

25.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

26.

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

27.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

28.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

29.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

30.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

34.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

35.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

36.

This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

37.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

38.

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

39.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

40.

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

41.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

42.

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

43.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

45.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

46.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

47.

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

48.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

49.

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

Forbes, B. C.

50.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.