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

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

Hoffer, Eric

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

YoungJr., Whitney

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Jackson, Jesse

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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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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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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Wicker, John

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

31.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, Greek

35.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Branson, Richard

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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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