Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Be an opener of doors.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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.

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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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Menace, Dennis the

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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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

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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.

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Sharp, Tom

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.