Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- YoungJr., Whitney

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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.

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

Sayle, Alexi

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Sharp, Tom

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Forbes, B. C.

10.

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

11.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

12.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

14.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

15.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

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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

18.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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.

20.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

21.

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

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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

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

24.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Rowland, Helen

26.

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

Landers, Ann

27.

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

Branson, Richard

28.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

29.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

30.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

31.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

32.

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

Proverb, Greek

33.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

34.

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

Nightingale, Earl

35.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

40.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

42.

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

43.

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

Herbert, Jack

44.

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

Flanders, Alberta

45.

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

Buffett, Warren

46.

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

Collier, Robert

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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

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

Wicker, John

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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

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