Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

- Quixote, Don

Best Quotes about Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

10.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

11.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

12.

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

13.

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

Horace

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Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Flanders, Alberta

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

Hendricks, Howard

17.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

19.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

20.

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

23.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

24.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

25.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Herold, Don

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

30.

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

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

34.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

35.

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

Crane, George W.

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

38.

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

Iacocca, Lee

39.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

YoungJr., Whitney

40.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Williamson, John

43.

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

44.

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

45.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Herbert, Jack

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.