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

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

Williamson, John

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

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

Horace

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.

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

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

Sayle, Alexi

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Branson, Richard

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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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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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Herold, Don

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

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

Herbert, Jack

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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Maltz, Maxwell

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Landers, Ann

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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