Quotes & Sayings About Opportunity Knocks

Temptation leans on the doorbell, but opportunity knocks only once. — Malorie Blackman

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

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

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

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

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

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring. — Mae West

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

When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

When opportunity knocks, it's too late to prepare. — John Wooden

When opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence. — Richard Dashut

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

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

Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in — Joe Sacco

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

When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise. — Bill Maher

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking. — George Ade

Never close the doors of opportunity to climb through the windows of peril. — Dennis Adonis

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

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

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. — Maxwell Maltz

Whatever you do, do it with purpose. Being focused is not something to be ashamed of. It is something to be proud of. When you know what are you are doing and have a clear vision of where you are going, you will not need to chase opportunities. Opportunities will seek you. Happiness will chase you. And, instead of being a choice, you will be the one choosing. — Najwa Zebian

They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once — Pete Du Pont

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity. — Leon Spinks

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

Always remember, when opportunity knocks, don't knock opportunity! Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw — Jack Canfield

They say when opportunity knocks you should let it in and invite it to sit at your table. F*** that
when opportunity knocks, you should take it captive. Beat that s*** down. I've got opportunity tied to a chair in my basement with a ball gag in its mouth. Opportunity ain't even thinking about leaving my house. If you keep quiet for a second, you'll hear it whining. — Tracy Morgan

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Awake! arise! the hour is late!
Angels are knocking at thy door!
They are in haste and cannot wait,
And once departed come no more.
Awake! arise! the athlete's arm
Loses its strength by too much rest;
The fallow land, the untilled farm
Produces only weeds at best. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. — Oscar Wilde

Opportunity is always under our feet. We don't have to go anywhere. All we need to do is recognize it. When people don't know how to recognize opportunity, they complain of noise when it knocks. The same opportunity never knocks twice. The next one may be better or worse, but it is never the same one. — Shiv Khera

Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days. — Ryan Lilly

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

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

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

A lot of aspiring writers are actually very talented and just have to continue polishing their craft till opportunity knocks.

All writers have to persevere, have a story they want to share and push till it's in a form others can understand and appreciate.

To my fans and readers, I love you all and say a great big THANK YOU! — Myne Whitman

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name. — Mason Cooley

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

Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you. — Richie Norton

Love of God and people will pave roads where there once were none. — Shannon L. Alder

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

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'. — Luke Haines

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

It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door. — Anthony Liccione

He knocks on doors and stands there. You'd be surprised how few doors get answered — Andrew Kaufman

Opportunity knocks only once. — Abah Mohd Khairul Anuar

What's knocking on your door...opportunities to succeed or opportunities to fail? Times may get tough, life may not be fair, but never allow fleeting disappointments to corrupt your attitude and your plans for the future. Self-pity is a destructive force that will eat away at every opportunity for success. If your determination to succeed is where it needs to be...failure never makes it to your doorstep. ~Jason Versey — Jason Versey

Opportunity never knocks; it is within you. — Denis Waitley

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

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

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

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

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. — Doug Larson

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

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

When opportunity knocks a pessimist dials 911;
when opportunity knocks an optimist sets the table. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Leaders don't need a path. They make one. — Tim Fargo

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

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

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

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