Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Williamson, John

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Rowland, Helen

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.

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

Horace

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

Wicker, John

10.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

11.

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

12.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

23.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

24.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Herold, Don

29.

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

30.

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

Flanders, Alberta

31.

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

32.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

33.

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

Sharp, Tom

34.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

35.

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

Proverb, Greek

36.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

37.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

38.

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

39.

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

40.

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

Nightingale, Earl

41.

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

42.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Kennedy, John F.

46.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

47.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.