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

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

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Iacocca, Lee

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.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Nightingale, Earl

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

10.

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

Proverb, Greek

11.

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

Menace, Dennis the

12.

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

13.

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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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

15.

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

Hendricks, Howard

18.

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

Herbert, Jack

19.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

21.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

22.

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

23.

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

Sayle, Alexi

25.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

28.

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

29.

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

Publilius Syrus

30.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

31.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

32.

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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

34.

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

Koch, Sally

35.

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

36.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

41.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Arabian

46.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

48.

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

Herold, Don

49.

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