Best Quotes about Opportunity
Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Nightingale, Earl
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.
Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
Proverb, Cuban
Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
Young, Brigham
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.
Koch, Sally
Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.
You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.
Nightingale, Earl
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
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
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
Publilius Syrus
Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.
Wicker, John
Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.
Proverb
Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.
Proverb, Arabian
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
A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.
Herbert, Jack
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
Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
Sayle, Alexi
It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
YoungJr., Whitney
He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.
Williamson, John
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
Krishna, Rama
Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.
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
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
Gracian, Baltasar
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
You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.
Grade, Lord Lew
Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.
Ovid
When fortune knocks open the door.
Proverb, German
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
The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.
Copeland, William Taylor
You must make your own opportunities.
Gough, John B.
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.
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
Kettering, Charles F.
As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
Collier, Robert
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
Brown Jr., H. Jackson
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
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
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
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.
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
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.
God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Iacocca, Lee
A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.
Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.
Kirkpatrick, Kirk
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
Opportunity is lost by deliberation.
Syrus, Publilius
Opportunity multiply as they are seized.
Wicker, John
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
Proverb, English
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