Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Be an opener of doors.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

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

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Sharp, Tom

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

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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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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Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Wicker, John

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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

Proverb, Greek

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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

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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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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.

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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