Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Horace

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Crane, George W.

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

Hoffer, Eric

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Publilius Syrus

10.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

11.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

13.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

14.

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

Proverb, Greek

15.

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

16.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

17.

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

18.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Arabian

21.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

22.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Buffett, Warren

27.

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

Flanders, Alberta

28.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

33.

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.

34.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

35.

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

36.

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

Landers, Ann

37.

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

Wicker, John

38.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

39.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

41.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

42.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

47.

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

48.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John