Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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

Grade, Lord Lew

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

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

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.

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

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

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

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

13.

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

Horace

14.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

Branson, Richard

16.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

17.

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

18.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

19.

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

20.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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.

25.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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

28.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

30.

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

31.

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

Wicker, John

32.

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

Sayle, Alexi

33.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

34.

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.

35.

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.

36.

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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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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

42.

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

Landers, Ann

43.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

44.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

45.

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

Hoffer, Eric

46.

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

47.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

48.

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

49.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.

Kennedy, John F.