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

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

Herold, Don

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Crane, George W.

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.

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

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

10.

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

11.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

12.

You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

13.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

14.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

15.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Young, Brigham

18.

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

19.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

20.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

21.

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

22.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Gough, John B.

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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

27.

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

Rowland, Helen

28.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

29.

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

Branson, Richard

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.

Proverb

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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

39.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

40.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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

Wicker, John

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

YoungJr., Whitney

43.

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

44.

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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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

46.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

47.

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

Hill, Napoleon

49.

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

Williamson, John

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

Flanders, Alberta