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

YoungJr., Whitney

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Wicker, John

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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

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

10.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

11.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Koch, Sally

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

20.

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

21.

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

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

Williamson, John

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

25.

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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hendricks, Howard

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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

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

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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 is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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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.

46.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

49.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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