Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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

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

Wicker, John

10.

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

11.

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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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

17.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

18.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

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

Proverb, Greek

25.

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

26.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

27.

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

Nightingale, Earl

28.

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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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

33.

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

34.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

35.

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

Forbes, B. C.

36.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

38.

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

Landers, Ann

40.

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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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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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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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.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

45.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

48.

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

Crane, George W.

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