Opportunity Quotes - Page 2

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

Present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.

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.

The opportunities for enjoyment in your life are limitless. If you feel you are not experiencing enough joy you have only yourself to blame.

David E. Bresler

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.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.

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

Thomas A. Edison

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.

Old habits will keep you stuck as they won't open doors to new opportunities.

Create answers where there are questions.Create solutions where there are problems.Create advantages where there are obstacles.Create opportunities where there are roadblocks.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The next time someone says, ‘The odds are against you,’ remember: If you don’t try, you forfeit the opportunity.

Frank Sonnenberg

Opportunities don’t make U turns.

it is, just a door.if you never knock,it may, never open.

JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon

Opportunity has got numerous appointments to keep, so it can't be held to ransom at your doorstep. Just a knock is enough for a man who is alert and expectant!

Osho Samuel Adetunji

In the ashes of adversity, lies opportunity.

Do you see a problem in every opportunity or an opportunity in every problem?

It's not who, it's when

Alejandro Taubas

Every reaction is an opportunity to cultivate a pearl - a beautiful truth that will illuminate the way forwards.

Pollyanna Darling

..the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise.

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

Nicholas Kristof

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Rosamunde Pilcher

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

God does not ask your abilityOr your inability.He asks only your availability.

Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE!

Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

Difficult situations create exploitable opportunities for those strong enough to persevere.

Change is nature’s way of offering us the opportunity to explore the parameters of our humanity and potential. Don’t fight it, embrace it. There is a magical experience awaiting those who embrace this natural process.

If "IT" doesn't break you, you have the opportunity to overtake "IT"!

I believe that God opens doors but closes them if you don’t act when given the opportunity.

Shellie M. Saunders

Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

You just don’t get it. The point I’m trying to make—the point you’re deliberately ignoring—is that tomorrow it might all go away. You have to do what you want and take what you want now.

Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.

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