A Quote by Milton Berle

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door, but only as long as it's not visible from the street.

Milton Berle

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Build Door Knock Long Only Opportunity Street Visible

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Milton Berle
American - Comedian
July 12, 1908 - March 27, 2002

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

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Milton Berle

Don’t knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, "How are you?" and no one says How aren’t you?

Rumi

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Max Eastman

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

B. C. Forbes

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Will Rogers

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

Oprah Winfrey

Opportunity may knock only once but it passes by your door every day.

Frank K. Sonnenberg

Opportunity doesn't knock on my door, I go and break its door down.

Behdad Sami

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

Recognize that being one of the only black people in an organization, or just in a meeting, automatically makes you very visible. Use this to help yourself. Look at it as an opportunity, and leverage that opportunity by making a visible contribution.

Kenneth I. Chenault

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.

Gayle Forman

You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.

Bruno Mars

Somebody said you have to love what you do, but that's not necessarily true. What is true is that you have to love the opportunity. The opportunity to build life, future, health, success and fortune. Knocking on someone's door or making that extra call may not be something you love to do, but you love the opportunity of what might be behind that door or call.