Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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

Horace

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Proverb, Arabian

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

10.

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

Sharp, Tom

11.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

12.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

14.

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

Forbes, B. C.

15.

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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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

17.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

18.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

19.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

20.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

21.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

22.

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

23.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

24.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

Kennedy, John F.

26.

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

Publilius Syrus

27.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

28.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

29.

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

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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

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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

32.

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

33.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

34.

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

Herbert, Jack

35.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

36.

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

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

Crane, George W.

40.

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

41.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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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

44.

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

45.

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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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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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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Hendricks, Howard