Opportunities - Quotes

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it. - Francis Bacon

A man who misses his opportunity, and monkey who misses his branch, cannot be saved. - Hindu Proverb

A window of opportunity won't open itself. - Dave Weinbaum

All your problems, discouragements, and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise. - Og Mandino

Alleged ‘impossibilities’ are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched. - Charles R. Swindoll

Although opportunity is more definite than luck, and is apparently governed by more distinguishable laws, it cannot always be corralled and is at times elusive. It is an undeniable fact that equal opportunity does not present itself with apparent fairness; but it is also as positive a fact that opportunity is likely to come to those who seek it, and to avoid those who make no effort to meet it or to prepare themselves to entertain it when it does come. - Nathaniel Clark Fowler

An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life. - William de Witt Hyde

Between yesterday’s regrets and tomorrow’s dreams is today’s opportunity. - Unknown

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. - Unknown

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had misses. - Lily Tomlin

Don’t be so thirsty for opportunity that you drink from every cup handed to you. That’s how you get poisoned. - Unknown

Don’t let today’s opportunities become tomorrow’s what ifs. - Unknown

Every man knows that there are moments upon which hang the destiny of years. It is only for the moment that the favorable opportunity is presented. If we miss it, months, months and years are lost. What is the doing of a deed but the sowing of a seed? If it is not sown at the right time, it will not germinate. How priceless are the sunny days of youth, so rich in opportunity. Is it not always the nick of time for an active-minded youth? His brain cells and nerves are plastic, and it is easy to make an impression upon the mind itself, by which life's activities may be so regulated that his success will be as certain as the processes of mechanism. The determining moment is often very brief, and if we are on the watch, and always ready to seize it, it will make all the difference to us between success and failure. - Orison Swett Marden

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity. - Unknown

Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice. - A. M. Honore

Even when opportunity knock, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door. - Unknown

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. - Bob Feller

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. - Unknown

For a lot of people, it seems that opportunity can be the most elusive event in the world. Indeed, I would argue that opportunity is elusive! By that, I don't mean to say that it never happens. In fact, the very opposite is true. Opportunity is always happening all around us, it is literally everywhere. But it is elusive in that, generally speaking, it is in disguise! - R. Ian Seymour

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. - Mignon McLaughlin

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. - William James

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. - Samuel Goldwyn

If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade. - Tom Peters

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Berle

If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you’re not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later. - Richard Branson

If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you’re never at home. - Marilyn vos Savant

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness. - Les Brown

In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's. - George Horace Lorimer

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein

Indecision is the thief of opportunity. - Jim Rohn

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. - Whitney M. Young

It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, and seize the opportunities. - Woody Allen 

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. - Frederick Philipse

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away. - John Lubbock

It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered. - Unknown

Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along. - Hugh Allen

[Learn] to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life. We call them coincidences, but if we look closely we see they are meaningful. They bring us just the right information at just the right time to extend our careers, relationships, and growth. These events feel destined in some way, as though the world is set up to help us make a better life, work through our problems, and reach our dreams – if we just pay attention. - James Redfield

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly. - Frank Tyger

Man is, to a considerable extent, the child of opportunity. Estimate as highly as we may the power of the individual achievement of success, there is yet another factor in the product, the power of circumstances, which we cannot wholly ignore. It has been remarked that the same tree that is soft and spongy in a fat swamp, with its heavy air, grows hard and noble on the hillside. - William Mathews

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. - Unknown

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them. - Samuel Smiles

Most of us never recognize opportunity until it goes to work in our competitor’s business. - P. L Andarr

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. - H Jackson Brown Jr.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them. - Rosamund Lehmann

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them. - Samuel Smiles

Opportunities always look bigger going than coming. - Unknown

Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Opportunities are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. - Orison Swett Marden

Opportunities are like sunrises, if you wait too long  you can miss them. - Unknown

Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss. - Unknown

Opportunities are often things you have not noticed the first time around. - Unknown

Opportunities are presented to us each and every day, but do we see them? - Catherine Pulsifer

Opportunities come but do not linger. - Nepalese Proverb

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Every one must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like a other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet the supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-face or disguised. - Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them. - Audrey Hepburn

Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. - Jerome k. Jerome

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu

Opportunities? They are all around us - there is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. - Orison Swett Marden

Opportunity - Often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. - Napoleon Hill

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone. - Arthur Brisbane

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. - Kyle Chandler

Opportunity is a bird that never perches. - Claude McDonald

Opportunity is a door leading up to another plane of life. But that door is not plainly marked like the exits at a theatre. "Enter here" is not written over the portal. Nevertheless it is fairly easy to find the door to any chosen place for all around all of us are plenty of opportunities. Look not afar for the opening. Look close at hand for it, whatever direction your ambition may take. Look intently, think long and deeply about your virtues and vices and circumstances. Perhaps in the very work which is in your hands is the knob which swings open the door of the opportunity for which you long. If you cannot find the opportunity then you are unworthy of the better place to which that opportunity would lead. - James E. Clark

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. - George S. Clason

Opportunity is as constant as the shadows that walk with us, and is always present in our affairs. - Doc Schmidt

Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it and do not know it. - Unknown

Opportunity is coy. The careless, the slow, the unobservant, the lazy, fail to see it, or clutch at it when it has gone. The sharp fellows detect it instantly, and catch it when on the wing. - William Matthews

Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made. - Orison Swett Marden

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. - William Arthur Ward

Opportunity is one of those things that depend greatly on the eye of the beholder. - Andrew Sanchez

Opportunity knocks at the strangest times, It’s not the time that matters But how you answer the door. - Steve Gray

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

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

Our abilities and ambitions count for little, unless the door of opportunity is open to us. - Nicias Ballard Cooksey

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. - Napoleon Hill

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

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty. - S. Monson

People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours. - Ken Hakuta

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit. - Rafael Sabatini

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. - Bulgarian Proverb

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it. - Julie Andrews Edwards

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

Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. - Brian Tracy

The door of opportunity will not open unless you do some pushing. - Unknown

The doubtful man bewails the opportunity just gone, and which he has lost, but the time spent in bewailing his loss and blaming somebody, prevents him from seeing the opportunity then present, but again not seen until it too has just gone. - H. W. Percival

The dynamic power of a resolute soul is but little affected by outward circumstance. I have no patience with the whining complaint that success in life is dependent upon opportunity, and that opportunity is largely a matter of chance. For the aggressive man opportunity is never wanting. Let him make the most of opportunity and opportunity will make the most of him. - James M. Beck

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. - Orison Swett Marden

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak. - Orison Swett Marden

The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

There are no limits to our opportunities. Most of us see only a small portion of what is possible. We create opportunities by seeing the possibilities, and having the persistence to act upon them. We must always remember… opportunities are always here, but we must look for them. - Unknown

There comes a moment in every life when the Universe presents you with an opportunity to rise to your potential. An open door that only requires the heart to walk through, seize it and hang on. The choice is never simple. It's never easy. It's not supposed to be. But those who travel this path have always looked back and realized that the test was always about the hear. The rest is just practice. - Jaime Buckley

There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. - Wayne Dyer

They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time. - John Stuart Mill

Time is limited and some opportunities never repeat themselves. - Belle de Jour

To come before the opportunity, is to come before the bird is hatched; and to come after the opportunity is to come when the bird is flown. There is no calling back time, when it is once past. - John Flavel

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. - Samuel Johnson

To think and to will without doing, when there is opportunity, is like a flame enclosed in a vessel and goes out; also like seed cast upon the sand, which fails to grow, and so perishes with its power of germination. - Emanuel Swedenborg

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 is too late. - Rita Coolidge

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation. - Thomas A. Edison

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. - John W. Gardner

We must have opportunity or we cannot hope for happiness. Our abilities and ambitions count for little, unless the door of opportunity is open to us, and he who is alert, and sees and appreciates opportunity, is on the certain road to happiness. - Nicias Ballard Cooksey

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. - Publilius Syrus

You cannot see opportunity if your mind is continually cluttered and blocked by trivial matters. - Unknown

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can’t sit back and wait. - Ellen Metcalf

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. - Napoleon Hill

Your opportunity is just as good, perhaps even better, than any other man's. Get to work where you are. And get to work right now. - William A. Radford