Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Forbes, B. C.

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

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

10.

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

11.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

12.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

13.

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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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.

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

Williamson, John

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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

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

Proverb, Arabian

32.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Publilius Syrus

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Branson, Richard

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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 Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Koch, Sally

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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

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Landers, Ann

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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