Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The back of one door is the face of another.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Koch, Sally

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

10.

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

11.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

12.

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

13.

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

Herold, Don

14.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

15.

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

Hoffer, Eric

16.

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

Nightingale, Earl

17.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

18.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

20.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

21.

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

22.

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

Sharp, Tom

23.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

24.

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

25.

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

Hendricks, Howard

26.

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

27.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

28.

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

29.

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

30.

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

31.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

32.

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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

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

Flanders, Alberta

35.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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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

38.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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

41.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

46.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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

49.

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

Herbert, Jack