Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

- Wicker, John

Best Quotes about Opportunity

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

Herbert, Jack

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

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Koch, Sally

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Sayle, Alexi

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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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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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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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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.

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

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

Hendricks, Howard

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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al

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

Branson, Richard

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A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

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

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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

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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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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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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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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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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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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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You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Grade, Lord Lew

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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