Opportunity Quotes

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Mark Twain

You have to believe in it to get it...

Nora Roberts

Think in terms of opportunities and solutions instead of problems, disappointment, and failure.

Lorii Myers

Although time seems to fly by, it never travels faster than one day at a time. Each day is a new opportunity to live your life to the fullest.

Steve Maraboli

I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Jane Austen

Salvation is more than a word, It is His Word. His word became flesh so we have the opportunity to live.

Tabitha Robin

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Ambrose Bierce

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable:think of it as a place for correction and it's not so bad. Imagine a set of people all living in the samebuilding. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it wasreally surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would becomepessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic

C.S. Lewis

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

Zig Ziglar

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

I happened to say, it would be terrible if he should not find a speedy opportunity of returning to London, and be confined in so dull a place. JOHNSON: Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. It would not be terrible, though I were to be detained some time here.

Samuel Johnson

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Margaret Cho

We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed.

Steve Maraboli

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

Listen to the mustn'ts child.Listen to the don'ts.Listen to the shouldn't haves, the impossibles, the won'ts.Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me.Anything can happen child.Anything can be.

Shel Silverstein

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

Proverb

America is another name for opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Baltasar Gracian

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Howard Hendricks

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 Rockefeller