Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Wicker, John

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

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

12.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Herbert, Jack

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Ovid

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

29.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Brigham

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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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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

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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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Where one door closes, another opens.