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

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Wicker, John

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Publilius Syrus

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

10.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Crane, George W.

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

Ovid

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

21.

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

22.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

23.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Mandino, Og

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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.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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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

31.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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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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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.

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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

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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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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

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

Horace

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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