Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.

Nightingale, Earl

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Ovid

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

11.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Hendricks, Howard

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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 rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

37.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Horace

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Herold, Don