Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Opportunity

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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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.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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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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We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

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

Wicker, John

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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 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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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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.

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

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

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