Quotes
Quotes about Opportunity
The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door, and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves that they are alive.
Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwritingâ 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.
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it
Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. â¢Anonymous Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
Opportunity comes in a once while, you got to see it, just like a shooting star.
The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.
It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown.
The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity.
