Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

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

Hendricks, Howard

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

10.

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

11.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

12.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

13.

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

14.

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

Herold, Don

15.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

21.

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

Wicker, John

22.

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

23.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

24.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

25.

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

26.

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

Horace

27.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

28.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

29.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

30.

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

Rowland, Helen

31.

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

32.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

33.

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.

34.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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

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

Landers, Ann

37.

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

Forbes, B. C.

38.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

42.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

45.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

46.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

47.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

48.

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

49.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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