Motivational Quotes

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.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

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

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.

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

10.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

11.

A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.

Downs, Lawrence

12.

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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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

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

Landers, Ann

15.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

16.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

17.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

18.

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

19.

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

Koch, Sally

20.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

21.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Crane, George W.

27.

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

Grade, Lord Lew

28.

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

Wicker, John

29.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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.

31.

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

Young, Brigham

32.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

33.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Ginzberg, Eli

34.

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

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

37.

Every wall is a door.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

39.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

40.

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

41.

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

Horace

42.

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

43.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

44.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Edison, Thomas A.

45.

Be an opener of doors.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

49.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Lee, Bruce