OPPORTUNITY QUOTES
quotations about opportunity
Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.
RAFAEL SABATINI
Scaramouche
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
attributed, Winning the Fight to be Happy
The door of opportunity is always marked PUSH.
BOB GASS
attributed, Discover Your True Potential
Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Pooped Puppies
We must have opportunity or we cannot hope for happiness.
NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY
Helps to Happiness
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 Book Thief
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
The Hour of Opportunity
Opportunity is coy. The careless, the slow, the unobservant, the lazy, fail to see it, or clutch at it when it has gone. The sharp fellows detect it instantly, and catch it when on the wing.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
Getting on in the World; or, Hints on Success in Life
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
MILTON BERLE
attributed, POWER Optimism
Opportunity is the cream of time.
JOHN WADE
Redemption of Time; The Duty and Wisdom of Christians in Evil Days
Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
The Hour of Opportunity
Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.
HENRY FORD
My Life and Work
For a lot of people, it seems that opportunity can be the most elusive event in the world. Indeed, I would argue that opportunity is elusive! By that, I don't mean to say that it never happens. In fact, the very opposite is true. Opportunity is always happening all around us, it is literally everywhere. But it is elusive in that, generally speaking, it is in disguise!
R. IAN SEYMOUR
Discover Your True Potential
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Julius Caesar
No man possesses a genius so commanding, that he can attain eminence, unless a subject suited to his talents should present itself, and an opportunity occurs for this development.
PLINY THE YOUNGER
attributed, Day's Collacon
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
FRANCIS BACON
Advancement of Learning
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
address to the electors of Great Britain, 1774
If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities; if we do not make haste, we are left behind.
SENECA
attributed, Day's Collacon
When the iron is hot, strike.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
Forbes Magazine, 1959