Opportunity Quotes

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

You must make your own opportunities.

John B. Gough

Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.

Paulo Coelho

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

George Eliot

Today I will take the opportunity to do unanticipated good.

Steve Maraboli

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Maxwell Maltz

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Napoleon Hill

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Alberta Flanders

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 Marton

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

English Proverb

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Golda Meir

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

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Sally Koch

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirk Kirkpatrick

If it isn't your job to, perhaps it's your opportunity.

Anonymous

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.

Joseph Sugarman

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

Arabic Proverb

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

Gore Vidal