Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

The back of one door is the face of another.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Opportunity

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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.

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

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

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

Koch, Sally

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

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

Herold, Don

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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

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When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

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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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Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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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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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 create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Gracian, Baltasar