Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Herbert, Jack

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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

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

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

Landers, Ann

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

14.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

15.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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

Wicker, John

18.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

19.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Herold, Don

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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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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

24.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

26.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

27.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

28.

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

29.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

30.

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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

33.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Sayle, Alexi

35.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

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

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Grade, Lord Lew

39.

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

Branson, Richard

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

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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

47.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German