Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

11.

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

Herbert, Jack

12.

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

Collier, Robert

13.

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

14.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

15.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

16.

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

17.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

18.

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

Rowland, Helen

19.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

20.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

21.

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

Hendricks, Howard

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

27.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

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

Barton, Bruce

32.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

33.

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

34.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

35.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

36.

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

37.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

38.

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

Herold, Don

39.

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

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

41.

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

Wicker, John

42.

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

43.

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

Sayle, Alexi

44.

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

Crane, George W.

45.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

46.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

47.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

48.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

49.

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

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

Landers, Ann