Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

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.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

10.

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

11.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

12.

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

Sayle, Alexi

13.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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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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It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

18.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

19.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

20.

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

21.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

22.

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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The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

24.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

25.

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

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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.

27.

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

28.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

30.

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

Forbes, B. C.

32.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

33.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

34.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

36.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

40.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Koch, Sally

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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

45.

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