Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Hoffer, Eric

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Barton, Bruce

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

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

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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

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It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Sharp, Tom

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Publilius Syrus

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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

20.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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.

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

Wicker, John

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Young, Brigham

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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

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

Collier, Robert

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Koch, Sally

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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Ovid

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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

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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