Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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

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

When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Ovid

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

10.

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

15.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

16.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

17.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

19.

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.

20.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

21.

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

Barton, Bruce

22.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

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

24.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

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

Koch, Sally

26.

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

Young, Brigham

27.

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

28.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

30.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

31.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

32.

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

Collier, Robert

33.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

34.

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

35.

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

Landers, Ann

36.

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

37.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

38.

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

39.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

40.

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

Publilius Syrus

41.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

42.

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

Kennedy, John F.

43.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

44.

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

45.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

46.

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

Branson, Richard

47.

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

48.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

49.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

50.

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.