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

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Kennedy, John F.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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

Branson, Richard

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

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.

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

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Crane, George W.

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Brigham

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

Hendricks, Howard

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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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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

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

Horace

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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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Wicker, John

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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.

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Landers, Ann

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Herold, Don

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.