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

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Menace, Dennis the

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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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

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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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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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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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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Landers, Ann

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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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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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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

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A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Young, Brigham

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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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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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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

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

Horace

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

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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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Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

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

Herbert, Jack

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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