Quotes About Opportunity Knocks

#1. 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.'

John Barrowman

#2. If opportunity knocks, let it in. But with the way things are nowadays-I'd rather meet opportunity somewhere that's more public. I could meet opportunity in a coffee shop, but what if it works there? Well, I could suggest my grandma's basement.
-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz

James Lee Schmidt

#3. Even though we may want something so badly, most times when it arrives we cannot see the thing for what it is. Opportunity knocks all the time, Molly, but it is your responsibility to open the door.

Kent Allan Rees

#4. Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks.
People go west when all bets are off: a reputation in ruins, a love gone wrong. When they need to save their sorry souls, folks head for the frontier.

Karen Hines

#5. I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or bad, can make a big difference in a life. Better to run from those skunks than with them.

Steve Goodier

#6. When opportunity knocks, it's too late to prepare.

John Wooden

#7. Always remember, when opportunity knocks, don't knock opportunity! Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Jack Canfield

#8. Temptation leans on the doorbell, but opportunity knocks only once.

Malorie Blackman

#9. When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise.

Bill Maher

#10. 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.

Victoria Moran

#11. Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Rita Coolidge

#12. When opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence.

Richard Dashut

#13. 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.

Walter Chrysler

#14. If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach of first getting photos and an agent. I think you should start with the work, and the other stuff will follow. As with 'opportunity knocks,' you have to be ready.

Bill Nunn

#15. Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in

Joe Sacco

#16. Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

Mae West

#17. It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door.

Anthony Liccione

#18. 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.

Finley Peter Dunne

#19. A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

Oscar Wilde

#20. Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

Douglas MacArthur

#21. When opportunity knocks a pessimist dials 911;
when opportunity knocks an optimist sets the table.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#23. Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Doug Larson

#24. When opportunity knocks, you don't leave it standing on the doorstep. You invite it in and feed it chocolate cake.

Carolyn Brown

#25. Certain formats should never be forgotten, 'Blind Date' for instance, because 'Britain's Got Talent' is really 'New Faces' or 'The Gong Show,' whilst we're basically 'Opportunity Knocks.'

Nigel Lythgoe

#26. Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

Leon Spinks

#27. People say opportunity knocks, but when it comes to success you really have to break the door off of its hinges before it even gets there.

Robert DiLauro

#28. Opportunity knocks only once.

Abah Mohd Khairul Anuar

#29. 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.

Louis L'Amour

#30. Don't just dream of success; create a plan and act upon it! Your momentum creates the door upon which opportunity knocks.

Steve Maraboli

#31. Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Mason Cooley

#32. Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

George Ade

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

B.C. Forbes

#34. He knocks on doors and stands there. You'd be surprised how few doors get answered

Andrew Kaufman

#35. Never close the doors of opportunity to climb through the windows of peril.

Dennis Adonis

#36. Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

George Eliot

#37. The next time someone says, 'The odds are against you,' remember: If you don't try, you forfeit the opportunity.

Frank Sonnenberg

#38. Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.

Kazuo Inamori

#39. Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#40. Within every adversity is an equal or greater benefit.
Within every problem is an opportunity.
Even in the knocks of life, we can find great gifts.

Napoleon Hill

#41. We often wait for that knock of opportunity, though I've found it's better to just grab a chainsaw and cut open your own fucking door.

Don Roff

#42. They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once

Pete Du Pont

#43. Leaders don't need a path. They make one.

Tim Fargo

#44. Love of God and people will pave roads where there once were none.

Shannon L. Alder

#45. Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.

Denis Waitley

#46. Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days.

Ryan Lilly

#47. Opportunity always knocks the door with hurdles. It's up to you either jump the hurdle to grab or owing to hurdle miss the opportunity .

Akansh Malik

#48. When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Boris Pasternak

#49. Major Major's father had a good joke about opportunity. "Opportunity only knocks once in this world," he would say. Major Major's father repeated this good joke at every opportunity.

Joseph Heller

#50. An opportunity only knocks once. The next one may be better or worse, but never the same one. That is why it is so crucial to make the right decision at the right time. A

Shiv Khera

#51. Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you.
You breathe it unthinking, and
dissipate it with your sighs.

Roy H. Williams

#52. As Jax went to knock on the door, she nearly stopped him. But the opportunity was eliminated as his knocks faded into silence. "Who?" A sleep-hazy voice called. "Your blushing princess," Jax called in a girlish falsetto. "Go away, Jax.

Elise Kova

#53. It's not the number of contacts you cultivate but the diversity and depth of connections that leverage your opportunity to use best talents more often to accomplish more.

Kare Anderson

#54. Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.

Richie Norton

#55. 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!

Israelmore Ayivor