Famous Opportunity Quotes

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. - General Douglas MacArthur

Excuses will always be there for you. Opportunity won't.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.
- Chris Grosser

Rise up. Start fresh. See the bright opportunity in each new day.

You just don't luck into things. You build them step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
- Barbara Bush

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca

Too many people are thinking ofsecurity instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Byrnes

Believe in new possibilities.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
- Bruce Lee

There are no mistakes, only opportunities.
- Tina Fey

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
- Sun Tzu

Don't wait for opportunity. Create it.

If it matters to you, you'll find a way.
- Charlie Gilkey

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Seneca

A wise man will make more opportunities then he finds.
- Francis Bacon

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

If you call it an opportunity instead of buckling under the load of the words crisis or tragedy or disaster, then you can start taking advantage of what has happened.
- Myles Munroe

Most people miss opportunity because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
- Tom Peters

As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.
- Donald Trump

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.
- S. Monson

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

Excuses will always be there for you. Opportunity won’t.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
- Kahlil Gibran

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.
- Steve Jobs

When we spend our time looking at what other people do or what they have, we deprive ourselves of the opportunity to see our own value.
- Les Brown

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
- B. C. Forbes

Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.
- Roy H. Williams

When opportunity presents itself, don’t be afraid to go after it.
- Eddie Kennison

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
- Michael Jordan

When fortune knocks open the door.

A neglected opportunity is lost forever, and past omissions can never be supplied by future diligence. Therefore, work while it is called day.
- Samuel Davies

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
- Ramsey Clark

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
- Richard Branson

Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.
- Christine Gregoire

Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.
- Sun Tzu

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Everyone must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
- Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
- Nolan Ryan

One opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.
- Markus Zusak

When opportunity doesn't knock, build a new door.

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