Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When fortune knocks open the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

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

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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

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

Buffett, Warren

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Hendricks, Howard

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Landers, Ann

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Opportunities are everywhere.The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff.There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

Benington, Lucy

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Williamson, John

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

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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

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Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Flanders, Alberta

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

39.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois