Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Opportunity

1.

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

Proverb, Greek

2.

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

Flanders, Alberta

3.

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

9.

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

Young, Brigham

10.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

11.

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

Herbert, Jack

12.

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

Hoffer, Eric

13.

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

Hendricks, Howard

14.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

15.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

16.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

17.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

21.

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.

22.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

23.

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

24.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

25.

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

26.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

27.

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

28.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

29.

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

Landers, Ann

30.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

31.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

32.

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

Williamson, John

33.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

34.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

35.

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

36.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

37.

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

Koch, Sally

38.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

39.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

40.

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

41.

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

Collier, Robert

42.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

43.

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

44.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

45.

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

46.

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

Crane, George W.

47.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

48.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

49.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen