Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

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

- YoungJr., Whitney

Best Quotes about Opportunity

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

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.

Copeland, William Taylor

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.

Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Brown, Gene

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

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

Hendricks, Howard

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

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

11.

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

12.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

13.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

Laver, Rod

14.

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

Iacocca, Lee

15.

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

16.

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

Forbes, B. C.

17.

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

18.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

19.

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

Rainer, Maria Rilke

20.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

21.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

22.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

23.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

25.

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

30.

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

31.

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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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

33.

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

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A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Herbert, Jack

35.

If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.

Phillips, James

36.

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

39.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Branson, Richard

40.

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

41.

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

Chapin Jr., Roy D.

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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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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

44.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

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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.

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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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You must make your own opportunities.

Gough, John B.

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

49.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Rowland, Helen

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Opportunity multiply as they are seized.