OPPORTUNITY QUOTES V

quotations about opportunity

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

GEORGE ADE

"The Undecided Bachelor", Knocking the Neighbors

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Although opportunity is more definite than luck, and is apparently governed by more distinguishable laws, it cannot always be corralled and is at times elusive. It is an undeniable fact that equal opportunity does not present itself with apparent fairness; but it is also as positive a fact that opportunity is likely to come to those who seek it, and to avoid those who make no effort to meet it or to prepare themselves to entertain it when it does come.

NATHANIEL CLARK FOWLER

Getting a Start


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.

RICHARD NIXON

attributed, Taking Charge: Crisis Intervention in Criminal Justice

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There comes a moment in every life when the Universe presents you with an opportunity to rise to your potential. An open door that only requires the heart to walk through, seize it and hang on. The choice is never simple. It's never easy. It's not supposed to be. But those who travel this path have always looked back and realized that the test was always about the heart.... The rest is just practice.

JAIME BUCKLEY

Prelude to a Hero


Man is, to a considerable extent, the child of opportunity. Estimate as highly as we may the power of the individual achievement of success, there is yet another factor in the product, the power of circumstances, which we cannot wholly ignore. It has been remarked that the same tree that is soft and spongy in a fat swamp, with its heavy air, grows hard and noble on the hillside.

WILLIAM MATTHEWS

Hints on Success in Life


Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities.

ROY T. BENNETT

The Light in the Heart


Many people are waiting for opportunity to knock at the door, but when it does knock they are seldom ready to take advantage of it. No man or woman need wait on opportunity. We all have the innate potential power to create our own opportunities.

WALTER MATTHEWS

"Opportunity", Human Life from Many Angles


Never see change as a threat, because it can be an opportunity to learn, to grow, evolve and become a better person.

RODOLFO COSTA

Advice My Parents Gave Me


Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected.

JOHN WICKER

Into Tomorrow


The most successful are those who have not waited for opportunity, but have reached out after it, conquered it and made it their servant.

WALTER MATTHEWS

"Opportunity", Human Life from Many Angles


Opportunity is often dressed up in work clothes.

CROFT M. PENTZ

The Complete Book of Zingers


He who is alert, and sees and appreciates opportunity, is on the certain road to happiness.

NICIAS BALLARD COOKSEY

Helps to Happiness


We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE

Meditations for Women


It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede

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If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.

JOHN FLAVEL

"A Treatise of the Soul of Man"


An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.

WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE

Vocations

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In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

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Opportunity is a God whose face is concealed by hair, so that we seldom know him when he comes to us. He has wings on his feet, so that when once gone he cannot be overtaken.

D. A. K. STEELE

The Chicago Clinic, April 1989


Opportunity leads even moderate men astray from the path of duty by the hope of self-aggrandisement.

SALLUST

attributed, Day's Collacon


The taking or neglecting of an opportunity is the gaining or losing of great fortune.

LORD BURLEIGH

attributed, Day's Collacon