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

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

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Sharp, Tom

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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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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.

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Horace

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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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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

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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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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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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

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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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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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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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John