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
