Quotes about opportunity

The back of one door is the face of another.

— Proverb

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

— Arabian Proverb

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

— Cuban Proverb

Opportunity creates desire.

— Dutch Proverb

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

— English Proverb

When fortune knocks open the door.

— German Proverb

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

— Greek Proverb

Where one door closes, another opens.

— Don Quixote

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

— Maria Rilke Rainer

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

— John D. Rockefeller

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

— David Rockerfeller

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

— Helen Rowland

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

— Alexi Sayle

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

— Helen Schucman

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

— David J. Schwartz

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!

— William Shakespeare

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

— Tom Sharp

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.

— Grace Speare

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

— Edward Steichen

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 and turned it into an opportunity.

— Joseph Sugarman

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

— Publilius Syrus

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

— Sara Teasdale

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

— Margaret Thatcher

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

— Alexis De Tocqueville

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

— Source Unknown

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

— Source Unknown

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

— Source Unknown

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

— Source Unknown

Opportunity always looks better going than coming.

— Source Unknown

Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.

— Source Unknown

A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

— Source Unknown

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

— Source Unknown

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

— Source Unknown

Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.

— Source Unknown

Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it.

— Source Unknown

Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

— Source Unknown

Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

— Source Unknown

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

— Source Unknown

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

— Source Unknown

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

— Source Unknown

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

— Source Unknown

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

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

— Gore Vidal

Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

— John Wicker

Opportunity multiply as they are seized.

— John Wicker

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

— John Edgar Wideman

He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.

— John Williamson

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

— Virginia Woolf

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

— Whitney Young Jr.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

— Brigham Young

We have this window of opportunity; we have a chance to make something real happen. Something possible happen, to live beyond our fear — think about that, and help us. Help lift us up, help us fight this fight to change, — transform — this country in a fundamental way. This chance won’t come around again. ~ Michelle Obama

— Michelle Obama

Every day is a new opportunity. Capture that moment.

— Patrick Pinckney

Possible is more a matter of attitude, a matter of decision, to choose among the impossible possibilities, when one sound opportunity becomes a possible solution.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Never doubt of your talents, all you wait for is just a right opportunity. Then, you can fly high up to where you belong.......

— Mak Kazeronnie

You must first stick your toes in the water to gauge the temper but before you jump into the water you must remember the water flows and as such the temperature changes.

— Source Unknown

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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