Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

We must open the doors of opportunity.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

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

2.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

3.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

4.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

6.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

7.

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

Williamson, John

8.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

9.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

10.

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

Flanders, Alberta

11.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

12.

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

13.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

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

Proverb, Greek

15.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

16.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Herold, Don

25.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

26.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

33.

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

34.

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

Wicker, John

35.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

36.

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

37.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

38.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

39.

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

Barton, Bruce

40.

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

Nightingale, Earl

41.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

42.

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

43.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

45.

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

Kennedy, John F.

46.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

47.

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

48.

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

Horace

49.

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

50.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke