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

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

10.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

11.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

12.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

14.

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

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

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

Herold, Don

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

18.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Jackson, Jesse

25.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

28.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

30.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

35.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

41.

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

Flanders, Alberta

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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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