Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Proverb, Greek

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

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

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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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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Herold, Don

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Wicker, John

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

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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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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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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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.