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

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

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

Sayle, Alexi

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Branson, Richard

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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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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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 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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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Buffett, Warren

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Proverb, Greek

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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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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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