Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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

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

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

10.

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

Hoffer, Eric

11.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

12.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

13.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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

20.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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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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Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

25.

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

Horace

26.

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 always looks better going than coming.

28.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Proverb, Greek

32.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

34.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

35.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

37.

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

Collier, Robert

38.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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

41.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

42.

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

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

46.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

49.

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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson