Opportunity Quotes

There are opportunities in every struggle. Look for these opportunities and make it great.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.

Thomas F. Woodlock

We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.

The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle capricious and unreasoning as some complain.

Opportunity rarely knocks until you are ready. And few people have ever been really ready without receiving opportunity's call.

Channing Pollock

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

I always keep myself in a position of being a student.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

Sir John Gielgud

If you want greater prosperity in your life start forming a vacuum to receive it.

Catherine Ponder

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance the chance will only make him ridiculous.

William Matthews

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

Sebastien Chamfort

Make hay while the sun shines.

English Proverb

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Benjamin Franklin

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.

William Shakespeare

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day and of doing good once in a year.

Voltaire

How many opportunities present themselves to a man without his noticing them?

Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

Ovid

The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep.

Senegalese proverb

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

Frederick Phillips

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.

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

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

Catherine Deneuve

The successful man is one who had the chance and took it.

Vigilance in watching opportunity tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost possible achievement-these are the martial virtues which must command success.

Opportunity knocks but once.

Anonymous

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

If Fortune calls offer him a seat.

Yiddish Proverb

To see a shadow and think it is a tree-that is a pity but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

Phyllis Bottome

Great opportunities come to all but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is simple fidelity to watch what each day brings.

Albert E. Dunning

Opportunities are everywhere.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work so most people don't recognize them.

The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great opportunities to help others seldom come but small ones come daily.

Ivy Baker Priest

Men do with opportunities as children do at the seashore they fill their little hands with sand and then let the grains fall through one by one till all are gone.

T. Jones

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities they will never come.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.

Know thine opportunity.

Pittacus

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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

Doc Sane

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. ... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly is the only way to meet supreme opportunities when they come whether open-faced or disguised.

Maltbie D. Babcock

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.

Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.

Thomas F. Woodlock

We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.

The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle capricious and unreasoning as some complain.

Opportunity rarely knocks until you are ready. And few people have ever been really ready without receiving opportunity's call.

Channing Pollock

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

I always keep myself in a position of being a student.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

Sir John Gielgud

If you want greater prosperity in your life start forming a vacuum to receive it.

Catherine Ponder

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance the chance will only make him ridiculous.

William Matthews

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

Sebastien Chamfort

Make hay while the sun shines.

English Proverb

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Benjamin Franklin

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.

William Shakespeare

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