75 Opportunity quotes and sayings that will enlighten you. Here are the best opportunity quotes to read from the great authors that will motivate you as well. One of the reasons why people are not doing so well is that they're not sensitive enough to observe what is happening around them. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss this so-called opportunity. They say that opportunity doesn't come every day, that's why you should seize the opportunity when it comes. May these inspirational quotes about opportunity inspire you and become more observant of the events in your life. Share these famous opportunity quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones.
1. Opportunities are presented to us each and every day, but do we see them. To see an opportunity we must be open to all thoughts. - Catherine Pulsifer
2. To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour. - Winston Churchill
3. New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. - Lao Tzu
4. Our lives are defined by opportunities. Even the ones we miss. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell
6. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. - Helen Keller
7. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. - Maltbie Babcock
8. Written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. - John F. Kennedy
9. There is no security on this Earth, there is only opportunity. - General Douglas MacArthur
10. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes
11. Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity. - Michael Johnson
12. Opportunities are like sunrises, if you wait too long, you miss them. - William Arthur Ward
13. Be a magnet that draws opportunity. Paint brilliant thoughts and actions. Mirror success. - Shawn L. Anderson
14. Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter. - Bono
15. Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu
16. Jump at opportunities to take on responsibilities. People should try new things, that's how to grow. - Kevin Murray
17. He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed. - William James
18. Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. - Jim Carrey
19. Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. - Bruce Barton
20. 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. - J. Sidlow Baxter
21. Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. - Stephen Covey
22. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. - Peter Drucker
23. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. - Ovid
24. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
25. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a bigger door. - Milton Berle
26. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Everyone must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
28. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli
29. You were born rich, with 18 billion bountiful, beautiful, totally available and in all probability underused brain cells awaiting your desire, decision and directional compass to take you onward, upward, and Godward. - Mark Victor Hansen
30. I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up. - Pierre S. DuPont IV
31. Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs. - Mario Andretti
32. Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser
33. At various points in your careers, you will be called to take a risk. And I think you will find, as I have found, those will be the times of your greatest opportunities. - Raymond V. Gilmartin
34. Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. I've felt that many times. My hope for all of us is that "the miles we go before we sleep" will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring - delight, sadness, joy, wisdom - and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings. - Fred Rogers
35. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. - Emily Dickinson
36. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. - John Burroughs
37. How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it. - Paulo Coelho
38. We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas A. Edison
39. Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities. - Roy T. Bennett
40. When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth. - Roy T. Bennett
41. One opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. - Markus Zusak
42. I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. - Sarah Dessen
43. If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later! - Richard Branson
44. It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path. - Michael Dell
45. You can’t outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little side bets about the outcome of life… if you don’t play you can’t win." – Judith McNaught
46. If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. - Tom Peters
47. Your big opportunity may be where you are right now. - Napoleon Hill
48. Change the happenings in your life from obligatory tasks to opportunities for which you are grateful. - Kathryn Prentice
49. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. - Ann Landers
50. We will never be able to recognize opportunities if we first don't recognize all that we have and all that we've been given. - Joel Osteen
51. Excuses will always be there for you. Opportunity won’t. - Anonymous
52. Once you have come to a realization of your own limits will find that your life can be full of mind-blowing opportunities. - Sam Rivers
53. Opportunity is everywhere. The key is to develop the vision to see it. - Anonymous
54. Over the years, I've come to view complaints as opportunities rather than obstacles. - Guy Winch
55. There are two benefits of failures, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work, and second the failure gives you an opportunity to try a new approach. - Destiny Madu
56. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. - Harry S. Truman
57. To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. - Bruce Lee
58. Opportunities and success are not something you go after necessarily but something you attract by becoming an attractive person. - Jim Rohn
59. Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope. - Christine Gregoire
60. Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. - Bobby Unser
61. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
62. The bigger the challenge, the bigger the opportunity. - Anonymous
63. To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter
64. Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by. - Og Mandino
65. Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems. - Sun Tzu
66. In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. - Mark Zuckerberg
67. Opportunities? They are all around us… There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. - Orison Swett Marden
68. Pressure, challenges – they are all an opportunity for me to rise. - Kobe Bryant
69. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. - William Shakespeare
70. Confidence unlocks every opportunity in life. - Anonymous
71. Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. - William Arthur Ward
72. Most do not understand the wonderful opportunities life gives until they look back at their life. - Eric Handler
73. 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
74. To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. - Benjamin Franklin
75. 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
1. Opportunities are presented to us each and every day, but do we see them. To see an opportunity we must be open to all thoughts. - Catherine Pulsifer
2. To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour. - Winston Churchill
3. New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. - Lao Tzu
4. Our lives are defined by opportunities. Even the ones we miss. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell
6. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. - Helen Keller
7. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. - Maltbie Babcock
8. Written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. - John F. Kennedy
9. There is no security on this Earth, there is only opportunity. - General Douglas MacArthur
10. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes
11. Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity. - Michael Johnson
12. Opportunities are like sunrises, if you wait too long, you miss them. - William Arthur Ward
13. Be a magnet that draws opportunity. Paint brilliant thoughts and actions. Mirror success. - Shawn L. Anderson
14. Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter. - Bono
15. Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu
16. Jump at opportunities to take on responsibilities. People should try new things, that's how to grow. - Kevin Murray
17. He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed. - William James
18. Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. - Jim Carrey
19. Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. - Bruce Barton
20. 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. - J. Sidlow Baxter
21. Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. - Stephen Covey
22. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. - Peter Drucker
23. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. - Ovid
24. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
25. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a bigger door. - Milton Berle
26. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Everyone must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. - Maltbie Davenport Babcock
28. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli
29. You were born rich, with 18 billion bountiful, beautiful, totally available and in all probability underused brain cells awaiting your desire, decision and directional compass to take you onward, upward, and Godward. - Mark Victor Hansen
30. I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up. - Pierre S. DuPont IV
31. Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs. - Mario Andretti
32. Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser
33. At various points in your careers, you will be called to take a risk. And I think you will find, as I have found, those will be the times of your greatest opportunities. - Raymond V. Gilmartin
34. Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. I've felt that many times. My hope for all of us is that "the miles we go before we sleep" will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring - delight, sadness, joy, wisdom - and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings. - Fred Rogers
35. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. - Emily Dickinson
36. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. - John Burroughs
37. How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it. - Paulo Coelho
38. We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas A. Edison
39. Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities. - Roy T. Bennett
40. When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth. - Roy T. Bennett
41. One opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. - Markus Zusak
42. I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. - Sarah Dessen
43. If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later! - Richard Branson
44. It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path. - Michael Dell
45. You can’t outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little side bets about the outcome of life… if you don’t play you can’t win." – Judith McNaught
46. If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. - Tom Peters
47. Your big opportunity may be where you are right now. - Napoleon Hill
48. Change the happenings in your life from obligatory tasks to opportunities for which you are grateful. - Kathryn Prentice
49. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. - Ann Landers
50. We will never be able to recognize opportunities if we first don't recognize all that we have and all that we've been given. - Joel Osteen
51. Excuses will always be there for you. Opportunity won’t. - Anonymous
52. Once you have come to a realization of your own limits will find that your life can be full of mind-blowing opportunities. - Sam Rivers
53. Opportunity is everywhere. The key is to develop the vision to see it. - Anonymous
54. Over the years, I've come to view complaints as opportunities rather than obstacles. - Guy Winch
55. There are two benefits of failures, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work, and second the failure gives you an opportunity to try a new approach. - Destiny Madu
56. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. - Harry S. Truman
57. To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. - Bruce Lee
58. Opportunities and success are not something you go after necessarily but something you attract by becoming an attractive person. - Jim Rohn
59. Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope. - Christine Gregoire
60. Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. - Bobby Unser
61. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
62. The bigger the challenge, the bigger the opportunity. - Anonymous
63. To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter
64. Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by. - Og Mandino
65. Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems. - Sun Tzu
66. In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. - Mark Zuckerberg
67. Opportunities? They are all around us… There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. - Orison Swett Marden
68. Pressure, challenges – they are all an opportunity for me to rise. - Kobe Bryant
69. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. - William Shakespeare
70. Confidence unlocks every opportunity in life. - Anonymous
71. Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. - William Arthur Ward
72. Most do not understand the wonderful opportunities life gives until they look back at their life. - Eric Handler
73. 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
74. To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. - Benjamin Franklin
75. 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
75 Opportunity quotes and sayings that will enlighten you
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