OPPORTUNITY QUOTES

quotations about opportunity

Opportunity quote

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

RAFAEL SABATINI

Scaramouche

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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

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We must have opportunity or we cannot hope for happiness.

NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY

Helps to Happiness


The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.

ORISON SWETT MARDEN

The Hour of Opportunity

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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


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

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If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

MILTON BERLE

attributed, POWER Optimism

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Opportunity is the cream of time.

JOHN WADE

Redemption of Time; The Duty and Wisdom of Christians in Evil Days


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

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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

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Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

HENRY FORD

My Life and Work

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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


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

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If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities; if we do not make haste, we are left behind.

SENECA

attributed, Day's Collacon

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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

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When the iron is hot, strike.

JOHN HEYWOOD

Proverbs

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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

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