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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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.

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

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Landers, Ann

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

10.

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

11.

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

Flanders, Alberta

12.

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

Horace

13.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

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

15.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

16.

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

17.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

18.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

21.

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

22.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

23.

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

24.

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

Hendricks, Howard

25.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

30.

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

31.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

32.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

33.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

34.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

35.

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

36.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

37.

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

38.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

39.

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.

40.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

41.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

42.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

46.

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

47.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

48.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

49.

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