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

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

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Koch, Sally

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

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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

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

Williamson, John

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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

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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Branson, Richard

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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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Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

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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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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Horace

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Estefan, Gloria