Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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.

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Grade, Lord Lew

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

10.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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

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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Flanders, Alberta

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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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Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Koch, Sally

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

Wicker, John

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

Young, Brigham

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

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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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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Branson, Richard

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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

40.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

43.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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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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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