Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Wicker, John

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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.

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

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

Young, Brigham

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Landers, Ann

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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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.