Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

- Quixote, Don

Best Quotes about Opportunity

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

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

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

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Koch, Sally

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Wicker, John

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Allen, James

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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

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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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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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

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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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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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

Ovid

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Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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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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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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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