Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

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.

2.

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

Menace, Dennis the

3.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

4.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

5.

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

6.

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

Koch, Sally

7.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Barton, Bruce

12.

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

Collier, Robert

13.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

14.

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

Ovid

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

21.

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

Wicker, John

22.

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

23.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

24.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

25.

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

Nightingale, Earl

26.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

27.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

28.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

29.

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

Sharp, Tom

30.

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

Publilius Syrus

31.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

34.

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

35.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

36.

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

37.

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

38.

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

39.

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

Hendricks, Howard

41.

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

42.

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

Buffett, Warren

43.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

45.

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

46.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

47.

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

Sayle, Alexi

48.

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

49.

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.