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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Branson, Richard

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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 multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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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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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Young, Brigham

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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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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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Menace, Dennis the

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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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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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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Horace

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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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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 far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Publilius Syrus

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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