Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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.

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

Sharp, Tom

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Flanders, Alberta

10.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

11.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

12.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

14.

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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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

18.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

19.

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.

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

25.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Iacocca, Lee

30.

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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

33.

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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

40.

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

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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

42.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Landers, Ann

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

Proverb, Greek

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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.