Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Every wall is a door.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Young, Brigham

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Hill, Napoleon

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

10.

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

Nightingale, Earl

11.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

12.

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

13.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

14.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

18.

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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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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Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Buffett, Warren

21.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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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

24.

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

25.

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

Wicker, John

26.

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

Hoffer, Eric

27.

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

28.

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

Horace

29.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

30.

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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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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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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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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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

40.

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

Ovid

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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

42.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

46.

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

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