Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

- Quixote, Don

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

2.

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

Herbert, Jack

3.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

4.

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

Sayle, Alexi

5.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria

6.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

7.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

8.

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

9.

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

Horace

10.

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

Barton, Bruce

11.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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.

13.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

14.

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

15.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

16.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

20.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

21.

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

22.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Proverb, Arabian

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Iacocca, Lee

27.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

28.

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.

29.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

32.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

33.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

34.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

35.

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

Collier, Robert

36.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

37.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

38.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Branson, Richard

42.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

43.

Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

44.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

46.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

47.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

48.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

49.

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

50.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German