Opportunity Quotes

  • "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
  • "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."
  • "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
  • "I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
  • "You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
  • "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
  • "In the middle of difficulity lies opportunity."
  • "Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient."
  • "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."
  • "Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary"
  • "Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."
  • "There is no security on earth; there is only opportunity."
  • "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
  • "Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something."
  • "Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer."
  • "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
  • "Plough deep while sluggards sleep."
  • "Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards."
  • "Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."
  • "Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers."
  • "The door to opportunity is always labeled 'push'."