A Quote by B. C. Forbes

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

B. C. Forbes

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B. C. Forbes
Scottish - Journalist
May 14, 1880 - May 6, 1954

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

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

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

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

Behdad Sami

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

Richard Dashut

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

Nicolas Chamfort

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

Joe Sacco

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

Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

James Geary

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

Frank K. Sonnenberg

When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

Idries Shah

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Milton Berle

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

Bruno Mars

One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.