Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Williamson, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

10.

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

11.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

13.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

14.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

15.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

16.

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

Sayle, Alexi

17.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

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

20.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

21.

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.

22.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

27.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

28.

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

Herold, Don

29.

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

Flanders, Alberta

30.

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.

31.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

32.

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

33.

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

34.

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

38.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

39.

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

Proverb, Greek

40.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

41.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

42.

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

43.

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

Williamson, John

44.

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

Young, Brigham

45.

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

Kennedy, John F.

46.

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