Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

- Copeland, William Taylor

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Greek

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

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

10.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

21.

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

Horace

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

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

26.

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

Herold, Don

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

30.

Every wall is a door.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

38.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Anderson, Bob

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

44.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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

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

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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.