Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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

Crane, George W.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Young, Brigham

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.

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Downs, Lawrence

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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

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Landers, Ann

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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.

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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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

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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sayle, Alexi