Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

2.

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

3.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

9.

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

Williamson, John

10.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

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

Wicker, John

12.

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

Ovid

13.

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

Herold, Don

14.

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

15.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

16.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

17.

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

18.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Forbes, B. C.

20.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

21.

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

Publilius Syrus

22.

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

Horace

23.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

24.

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

25.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

26.

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

Kennedy, John F.

27.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

28.

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

Sharp, Tom

29.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Greek

32.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

33.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

34.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

36.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

37.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

38.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

39.

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

40.

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

Landers, Ann

41.

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

Collier, Robert

42.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

46.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

50.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl