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They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once
Oct 1, 2025
One way to kill an opportunity is to avoid taking it.
Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
When opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence.
Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.
If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.
I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'
Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.
Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.
Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in
I don't feel sorry for myself.
That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more
Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.
When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.
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.
The universe is an infinite opportunity creation machine. In every instant, the possibility of greater possibility is programmed into the nature of things. Love creates the conduit through which new possibility enters our experience, and lovelessness keeps it at bay.
Change brings opportunity.
Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.
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.
I saw the 'Popstars' programme and to me it looked more like 'Opportunity Knocks' than the kind of cutting-edge postmoderism that The Guardian would like to have us believe it was. I think what it's more about is the public and the music industry's bloodlust. It's just like someone itching to say 'Oh, confound it all, let's bring back hanging, that was good entertainment'.
An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.
One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.
Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.
Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique; don't let this opportunity pass by. Give yourself the freedom to dream and think big.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.