Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Hoffer, Eric

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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

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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

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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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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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Young, Brigham

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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

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

49.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke