Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

We must open the doors of opportunity.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

Ovid

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

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

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

Horace

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

10.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

11.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

12.

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

13.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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

Publilius Syrus

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

22.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

25.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

27.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

28.

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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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

32.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

33.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

37.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

38.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wicker, John

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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

43.

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

Koch, Sally

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

Herbert, Jack

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Hendricks, Howard