Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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.

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

Publilius Syrus

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Marx, Karl

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

Landers, Ann

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Horace

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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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As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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

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

Williamson, John

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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

Herold, Don

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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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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 always looks better going than coming.

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Gracian, Baltasar