Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Kirkpatrick, Kirk

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Kennedy, John F.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sayle, Alexi

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herold, Don

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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

Young, Brigham

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Landers, Ann

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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Horace

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Crane, George W.

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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.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wicker, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.