Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

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.

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

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

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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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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 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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Be an opener of doors.

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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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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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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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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

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We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herold, Don

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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Landers, Ann

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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 hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Wicker, John