Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Herold, Don

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.

Sugarman, Joseph

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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

11.

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

12.

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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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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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

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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

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

18.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

19.

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

Barton, Bruce

20.

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.

21.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

22.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

23.

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

Proverb, Greek

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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

25.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Grade, Lord Lew

27.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

28.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

29.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

31.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

32.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

34.

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

Forbes, B. C.

35.

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

36.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

37.

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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

39.

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

40.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

41.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Horace

46.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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

48.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

49.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey