Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Herold, Don

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.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, Greek

10.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

11.

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Hendricks, Howard

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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

28.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Young, Brigham

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

35.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Peters, Thomas J.

41.

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 must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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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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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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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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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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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb