Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Where one door closes, another opens.

- Quixote, Don

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Williamson, John

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

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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

Branson, Richard

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

Schwartz, David J.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there every morning.

Menace, Dennis the

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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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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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Ellen Metcalf

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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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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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Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herold, Don

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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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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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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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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

33.

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

Ovid

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hendricks, Howard

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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

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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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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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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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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