Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Hendricks, Howard

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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

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

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

10.

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.

11.

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

Publilius Syrus

12.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

13.

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

Iacocca, Lee

14.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

16.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

17.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

20.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

21.

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

22.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

23.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

24.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

25.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

26.

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

Crane, George W.

27.

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

Flanders, Alberta

28.

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

Koch, Sally

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Sayle, Alexi

32.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

34.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

35.

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

37.

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

38.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

39.

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

40.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

42.

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

Wicker, John

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