OPPORTUNITY QUOTES
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.”
― John F. Kennedy
“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
― Emily Dickinson
“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
― John Burroughs
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
― Francis Bacon
“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”
― Paulo Coelho
“We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door”
― Milton Berle
“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
― Henry Ford
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“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
“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.”
― Stephen Richards
“…one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.”
― Markus Zusak
“The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.”
― Stephen Richards
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
― Edith Lovejoy Pierce
“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”
― Oprah Winfrey
“Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.”
― Idowu Koyenikan
“Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.”
― Santosh Kalwar
“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
“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
“Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.”
― Stephen Richards
“Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.”
― Thomas S. Monson
“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”
― Sarah Caldwell
“No matter how small you start, always dream big.”
― Stephen Richards
“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”
― Roger Von Oech
“It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability…. We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.”
― Thomas A. Edison
“When you fail, that is when you get closer to success.”
― Stephen Richards
“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.”
― Patti Roberts
“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. ”
― Boris Pasternak
“My grandfather says that’s what books are for,” Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. “To travel without moving an inch.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri
“the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”
― Sun Tzu
“Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.”
― Julie Andrews Edwards
“I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.”
― Oprah Winfrey
“My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.”
― Herbert Hoover
“Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.
The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.”
― Toba Beta
“Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a”
― George S. Clason
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.”
― William Blake
“When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from “I can’t do this” to “I must do this.”
― Toni Sorenson
“But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.”
― Marcel Proust
“Today I will take the opportunity to do unanticipated good.”
― Steve Maraboli
“I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.”
― Peter O’Toole
“Opportunity…it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.”
― Napoleon Hill
“Still I promise myself, “Next time I will do better” in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a “next time.”
― Robin Hobb
“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.”
― Doris Lessing
“Happiness is something we reap from the seeds we sow. Plant misery seeds and that us what you reap.”
― Stephen Richards
“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
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― Eric Hoffer
“All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.”
― Robert Kennedy
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