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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Williamson, John

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Herbert, Jack

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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 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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Greek

17.

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

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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

19.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

21.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Wicker, John

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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

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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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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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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

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

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

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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

32.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

33.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Publilius Syrus

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Collier, Robert

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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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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