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

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

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

Publilius Syrus

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

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

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

Young, Brigham

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

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

10.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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

Flanders, Alberta

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

Branson, Richard

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

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

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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.

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

28.

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

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

35.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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

46.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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