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

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Koch, Sally

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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

Herold, Don

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

10.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

11.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

12.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

14.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Menace, Dennis the

18.

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

Landers, Ann

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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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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 creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herbert, Jack

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

30.

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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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

32.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

34.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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

37.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

40.

Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

Ovid

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Branson, Richard

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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