Opportunity Quotes

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.
Robert Kiyosaki

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

Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
Robert Collier

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
Napoleon Hill

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
Mae West

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Thomas A. Edison

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

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Francis Bacon

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

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

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

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone’s slave.
Karl Kraus

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
Baltasar Gracian

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.
Denzel Washington

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.
Russell Simmons

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
Bruce Barton

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice.
Gloria Estefan

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
Brigham Young

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller

It’s when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
Mike Huckabee

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
Jesse Jackson

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Change brings opportunity.
Nido Qubein

To me, success is choice and opportunity.
Harrison Ford

So I’m still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.
Brandi Chastain

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn’t pass up any opportunity for resolution.
Dennis Kucinich

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
C. Northcote Parkinson

I believe that a parent’s role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.
David Soul

Each child is an adventure into a better life – an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan

Sometimes failure isn’t an opportunity in disguise, it’s just you.
Doug Coupland

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.
Paula Abdul

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Publilius Syrus

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Laurence J. Peter

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
Martha Beck

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser

Never surrender opportunity for security.
Branch Rickey

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
John Templeton

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.
Maltbie Babcock

Opportunity knocks, but doesn’t always answer to its name.
Mason Cooley

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Earl Warren

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

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes

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

The moment of enlightenment is when a person’s dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
Vic Braden

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.
Unknown

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer

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

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Hugh Miller

Chance is the providence of adventurers.
Napoleon Bonaparte

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.
John Greenleaf Whittier

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
William Barclay

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Peter F. Drucker

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?
Unknown

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
Publilius Syrus

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.
Sue Atchley Ebaugh

Some people not only expect opportunity to knock, they expect it to beat down the door.
unknown

Take off the blinders. You have to see opportunity before you can seize it.
Greg Hickman

They say football is America’s greatest game, but it’s not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a great expression of it.
Joe Kapp