Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Little opportunities should be improved.

- FeNelon, Francois

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

Koch, Sally

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

Proverb, Arabian

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.

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

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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

Wicker, John

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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.

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Kettering, Charles F.

19.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Branson, Richard

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Herold, Don

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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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Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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

Menace, Dennis the