Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

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

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Barton, Bruce

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.

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

10.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

11.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

12.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

18.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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 same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

25.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Horace

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Herbert, Jack

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Proverb, Greek

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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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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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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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Wicker, John

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.