Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

When fortune knocks open the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Landers, Ann

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

Sayle, Alexi

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

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Kettering, Charles F.

10.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Ovid

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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

20.

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

23.

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

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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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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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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Iacocca, Lee

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

Horace

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Branson, Richard

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

Young, Brigham

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

39.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

42.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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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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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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Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody