Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about 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.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization

Arbiter, Gauis Petronius

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Menace, Dennis the

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Young, Brigham

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Sharp, Tom

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Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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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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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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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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Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Koch, Sally

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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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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

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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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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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When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

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

Grade, Lord Lew