Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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.

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

Ovid

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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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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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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Iacocca, Lee

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Maltz, Maxwell

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.