Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Opportunity

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

YoungJr., Whitney

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

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

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

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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

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

Landers, Ann

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

Sayle, Alexi

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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Grade, Lord Lew

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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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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

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Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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

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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: Are your ready?

Carson, Johnny

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

Young, Brigham

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

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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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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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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.

33.

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Williamson, John

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If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

46.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

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Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor