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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Forbes, B. C.

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

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

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

Branson, Richard

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

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

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

10.

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.

11.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

12.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

13.

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

14.

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

Herold, Don

15.

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

Ovid

16.

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

17.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

18.

This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

19.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

20.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

21.

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

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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

23.

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

Sharp, Tom

24.

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

Flanders, Alberta

25.

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.

26.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

34.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

35.

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

Hoffer, Eric

36.

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

Buffett, Warren

37.

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

38.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

40.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

41.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

42.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

43.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

44.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

45.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

46.

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

Crane, George W.

47.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.