Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

Nightingale, Earl

11.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

12.

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

Horace

13.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

14.

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

Sharp, Tom

15.

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

Crane, George W.

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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

17.

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

Flanders, Alberta

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

22.

Capone, Al

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Menace, Dennis the

26.

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

27.

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

28.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Young, Brigham

33.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

35.

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.

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.

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

Landers, Ann

38.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

39.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

40.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

41.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

46.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson