Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Landers, Ann

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Wicker, John

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

10.

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

11.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

17.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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

Barton, Bruce

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Horace

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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.

23.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

25.

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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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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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

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Herold, Don

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

32.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Williamson, John

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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

Koch, Sally

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Buffett, Warren