Opportunity
- Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.--John Amatt
- As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!--Robert Collier
- As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.--Barbara Winder (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
- Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.--Roy D. Chapin Jr.
- Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.--Ovid
- The difference between obstacles and opportunity is your outlook.--Mark Sanborn ( Up, Down, or Sideways)
- Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.--Madame C. J. Walker
- A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size or it is not the door that Providence means for him.--Henry Ward Beecher (Proverbs from New Plymouth Pulpit)
- The door to opportunity is always labeled 'push'.--Anonymous
- Each day brings with it the miracle of a new beginning. Many of the moments ahead will be marvelously disguised as ordinary days, but each one of us has the chance to make something extraordinary out of them.--Douglas Pagels
- Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity.--Joseph Sugarman
- Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.--Dan Custer
- Face new challenges, seize new opportunities, test your resources against the unknown and in the process, discover your own unique potential.--John Amatt
- Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.--Robert Herrick ("To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" Herperides: or Works both Humane and Divine)
- 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 Sweet Marden
- A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such "breaks" are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.--Lawrence Downs
- He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.--William James
- I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.--John D. Rockefeller
- I believe that no matter how many mistakes we’ve made; how badly we’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected we’ve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.--Dave Pelzer
- I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dropped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know I held opportunity.--Hazel Lee
- I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... 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.--Adrienne Gusoff
- If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.--Edward de Bono (Serious Creativity)
- If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.--John B. Gough
- In a word, if we want security, let us give security. If we want life, let us give life. If we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities. The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us.--Pope Francis (address to the joint Congress of the US, Sept. 24, 2015)
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work--and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.--Lucille Ball
- No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they're doing.--Samuel Goldwyn
- Out of clutter, find Simplicity
From discord, find Harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.--Albert Einstein (Three Rules of Work)
- If opportunity came disguised as temptation, one knock would be enough.--Lane Olinghouse
- Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.--Shirley Temple Black (Child Stars)
- It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.--Eric Hoffer
- The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.--Ayn
- Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.--Neil Peart
- Many 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.--Thomas Jones
- The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.--Brian Tracy
- Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.--Rosamond Lehmann (The Ballad and the Source)
- Opportunities are on every hand; what we need is, not a new chance, but clearness of vision to discern the chance which at this very hour is ours, if we recognize it.--Katherine Krieger
- Opportunities are seldom labeled.--John A. Shedd
- Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.--Ann Landers
- Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.--Anonymous
- Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.--H. J. Brown, Jr. (A Hero in Every Heart)
- Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.--William A. Ward
- A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.--Sir Winston Churchill
- The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.--Charles Caleb Colton (Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words)
- The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.--Gloria Estefan
- Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.--Shirley Hufstedler
- "Single" is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.--Mandy Hale (The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass)
- Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
- There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.--Wayne W. Dyer
- There is no security on this Earth; there is only opportunity.--Douglas MacArthur
- Thinking "I failed" is a copout! It lets you off the hook. Game over, dude. I am not about to let you off so easily. Reframe your setbacks as signals for change and the opportunity to improve. This method of thinking requires a lot more energy than "I blew it." Instead, explode your limiting mindset. What would happen if you replaced the concept of failure with that of opportunity?-Devora Zack (Networking for People Who Hate Networking)
- This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.--Richard M. DeVos
- Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.--Nido Qubein
- Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.--Thomas F. Woodlock
- To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.--William James
- Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.--John Wayne
- Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death.--James F. Byrnes
- Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities.--Eric Hoffer (The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements)
- We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.--Walt Kelly (Pogo)
- We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.--Edith Lovejoy Pierce
- Well, some people create their own opportunities; others go where opportunities are the greatest; others fail to recognize opportunity when they are face to face with it.--Walter P. Chrysler
- What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.--Charles Victor Cherbuliez
- What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.--Jeremy Irons
- What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.--Sidlow Baxter
- 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.--Alexander Graham Bell
- When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.-–John Wooden
- ...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.--Lyndon B. Johnson
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.--Francis Bacon
- Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.--Bil Keane
- You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
- You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.--Roger Maris
- Young people need to be needed, they need opportunities to show love, courage, sacrifice. They need to be part of a cause that is larger than their individual appetites. They need to believe in something.--Thomas Sobol (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
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