Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Grade, Lord Lew

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Young, Brigham

11.

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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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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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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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

16.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

18.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Menace, Dennis the

26.

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.

27.

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.

28.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

32.

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

Horace

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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.

35.

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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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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

Peters, Thomas J.

38.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

41.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

43.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Herold, Don

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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