Quotes

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-Anonymous Author

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
-Cotton Mather

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
-Charles R. Swindoll

Ability is nothing without opportunity.
-Napoleon Bohaparte

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
-William Arthur Ward

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
-Wayne Dyer

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
-Hugh Miller

Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.
-James Geary

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
-John F. Kennedy

It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
-Arthur H Vandenberg

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-Milton Berle

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
-Seneca

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
-Wayne Dyer

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.
-Frederick Phillips

Observe the opportunity.
-Bible

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
-Joseph Campbell

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

Opportunity is a bird that never perches.
-Claude McDonald

Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
-Bulgarian Proverb

To attract good luck to oneself, it is necessary to take advantage of opportunities.
-George S. Glason

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-Bible

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not lie ready to their hand, they will make them.
-Samuel Smiles

Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it and do not know it.
-Doc Sane

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
-Oprah Winfrey

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
-Napoleon

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
-Albert Einstein

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions ? it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol

Never waste a crisis. It can be turned to joyful transformation.
-Rahm Israel Emanuel

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

When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere ? to buy, expand, design.
-Laurence Graff

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
-Oprah Winfrey

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more
-Anthony Robbins

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

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
-Henry Ford