Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Barton, Bruce

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

10.

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

Wicker, John

11.

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.

12.

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

Herold, Don

13.

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

14.

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

Sharp, Tom

15.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

16.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

18.

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

Williamson, John

19.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

20.

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.

21.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

22.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

23.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

24.

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

25.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

30.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

31.

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

Collier, Robert

32.

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

Hoffer, Eric

33.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Horace

36.

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

Proverb, Arabian

37.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

38.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

39.

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

40.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

41.

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

42.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

43.

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

Forbes, B. C.

44.

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

45.

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