Thoughts of Famous Quotes in English with Images

Ideals are the "incentive payment" of practical men. The opportunity to strive for them is the currency that has enriched America through the centuries.

- Robert E. Hannegan

The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.

- Stephen R. Covey

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

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

- Michael Johnson

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity.

- Joseph Sugarman

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

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.

- William Shakespeare

As the opportunity grows for unlimited growth and progress, the chances of failure increase. There is no such thing as a program that will provide security and growth and progress with no risk . . . even within the church. As freedom for unrestricted development is enhanced, the possibilities for failure are also increased. The risk factor is great.

- Dean L. Larsen

In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does.

- Robert C. Goizueta

Opportunity Quotes List and Sayings

Trouble is only opportunity is work clothes.

- Opportunity Quotes by Henry J. Kaiser

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

- Henry Wadsworth LongFellow

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

- Opportunity Quotes by Napoleon Bohaparte *

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

- Henry J. Kaiser Quotation

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

- A Quotation From Oprah Winfrey

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

- Napoleon I

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Once an opportunity has passed, it cannot be caught.

- Anonymous

Teachers open the doors, but you must enter by yourself.

- Chinese Proverb

Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.

- Anonymous

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

- H.Jackson Brown JR.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

- Jeremy Collier

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Publilius Syrus

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

- General Douglas MacArthur

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes

For every problem there is an opportunity.

- Anonymous

The less you know about an opportunity, the more attractive it is.

- Anonymous

How often the sight of means to do ill deeds, makes deeds ill done.

- William Shakespeare

You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it.

- Anonymous

If we do not take advantage of our opportunities, it is our own fault.

- Thomas J. Watson

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.

- Anonymous

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

- Anonymous

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

- Napoleon Hill

Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.

- William Wordsworth

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

- Anonymous

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

- Kyle Chandler

It's the man who waits for his ship to come in who's always missing the boat.

- Anonymous

Opportunity Quotation in English

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

- Charles Franklin Kettering

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

- Anonymous

It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

- Arthur H. Vandenberg

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

- Dr.Laurence J. Peters

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

- Anthony Robbins

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

- Napoleon Hill

Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.

- Anonymous

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.

- Frederick Philipse

A man who misses his opportunity, and monkey who misses his branch, cannot be saved.

- Indian Proverb

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Anonymous

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

- Anonymous

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

- John Burroughs

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

- William James

You and I can never do a kindness too soon, for we never know how soon it will be too late.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

- Eric Hoffer

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions, it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

- Irving Kristol

Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.

- Burt Lawlor

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

- Arthur Brisbane

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

- Arabian Proverb

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

- Sir Winston Leonard Churchill

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

- William Arthur Ward

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

- James F. Byrnes

The Chinese write the word crisis with two characters, on of which means danger and the other opportunity.

- Milo Perkins

Opportunities - They are all around us there is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

- Orison Swett Marden

To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.

- Samuel Johnson

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, 'Opportunity'.

- Marianne Craig Moore

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

- Opportunity Quotes by Bulgarian Proverb

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

- Opportunity Quotes by Patty Hansen Download or Share

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein Download or Share

Where one door shuts another opens.

- Miguel de Cervantes Download or Share

If God shuts one door, He opens another.

- Irish Blessing Thought Download or Share

Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.

- Adrienne Gisoff Download or Share

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

- Publilius Syrus Download or Share

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes Download or Share

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

- Sir Francis Bacon Download or Share

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

- General Douglas MacArthur Download or Share

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.

- Anonymous

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

- William Ellery Channing

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Some people stay far away from the door if there’s a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.

- Billy Joel

With increased opportunity comes increased stress. The stress comes from multiple conflicting demands and very little in the way of role models.

- Madeline Hemmings

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

- Victor Kiam