Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Forbes, B. C.

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

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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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The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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

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Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

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

Sayle, Alexi

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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

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We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Menace, Dennis the

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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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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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

Williamson, John

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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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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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

Crane, George W.

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

Horace

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

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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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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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