O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Opportunity is all around us, but we have beliefs and habits that block it.”
“Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Opportunity is another word for moving on. And it is a word choice, which is often the wiser. If the well gets poisoned, move to a meadow of merriment, where your hearts will echo the more.”
“Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.”
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“Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.”
“Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.”
Source: The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches
“Opportunity is in the person, not the job.”
“Opportunity is infinite; once you know that, opportunity is omni-existent.”
“Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.”
Source: Success Library
“Opportunity is lost by deliberation.”
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
“Opportunity is never lost... it simply moves on to someone else if you don't seize it!”
“OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door.”
“Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.”
Source: Into the Woods
“Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!”
“Opportunity is not discovered; it is designed. Forge the path, and the journey will unfold.”
“Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.”
“Opportunity is often dressed up in work clothes.”
“Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in”
“Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.”
Source: A Journey to Central Africa: Egypt and Soudan, 1851
“Opportunity is responsibility. It is a fleeing conjunction of circumstances. It is a test as well as a privilege. To be always equal to the opportunity, - what more could be said of the highest success in life?”
“Opportunity is seized in the preparation, long before the moment.”
Source: UNDERR8TED: The Route That Caught an NFL Dream
“Opportunity is still everywhere—most people just haven’t trained themselves to see it.”
Source: Take a Look… There’s Still Money All Around You: You’re Not Out of Options—You’re Overlooking Them
“Opportunity is swift of flight but slow to return.”
“Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.”
“Opportunity is the great bawd.”
“Opportunity is the greatest charity.”
“Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.”
“Opportunity knocks but some people are too busy watching TV.”
“Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.”
Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography
“Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.”
Source: Knocking the neighbors
“Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.”
“Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.”
“Opportunity lies between your own two ears”
“Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.”
“Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.”
“Opportunity looks a lot like work...”
“Opportunity makes a thief.”
“Opportunity makes the man”
“Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.”
“Opportunity may come to the patient, but always comes to the persistent.”
“Opportunity may knock only once but it passes by your door every day.”
“Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell”
“Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.”
Source: Writing in restaurants
“Opportunity may only come once in a lifetime.”
“Opportunity meets you at your level of expectation.”
“Opportunity never arrives, it only walks by. Chance never comes, it only knocks at the door. Never think the success will jump into your palms; you must work for it!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.”
“Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.”
“Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.”
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success