Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sayle, Alexi

10.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

11.

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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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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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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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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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Herold, Don

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

25.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

27.

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

28.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Proverb, Arabian

30.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

31.

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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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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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

34.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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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

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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 are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

41.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Publilius Syrus

45.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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