Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Herold, Don

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Flanders, Alberta

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

10.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

11.

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

Publilius Syrus

12.

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

13.

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

Lehmann, Rosamond

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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

15.

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

Young, Brigham

16.

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

17.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

18.

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

19.

Where one door closes, another opens.

Quixote, Don

20.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

25.

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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

27.

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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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

Keller, Helen

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Brown, Les

31.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

32.

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

33.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

34.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

35.

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

Collier, Robert

36.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

37.

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

Iacocca, Lee

38.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Rockerfeller, David

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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

40.

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.

41.

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

Koch, Sally

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

43.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sayle, Alexi