Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Iacocca, Lee

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

10.

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

11.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

12.

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

13.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

15.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

16.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

17.

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

Horace

18.

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.

19.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

20.

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

Forbes, B. C.

21.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

23.

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

24.

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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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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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

27.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

30.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

31.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

32.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

33.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

34.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Proverb, Greek

36.

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

Herold, Don

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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

38.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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

40.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

41.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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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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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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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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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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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