Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The back of one door is the face of another.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Crane, George W.

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

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

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Landers, Ann

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Koch, Sally

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

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody