Opportunity Quotes

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

~ Julie Andrews Edwards

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.

~ Steven Johnson

And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would’ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.”“Safe to do what?” he says in a gentler tone. “Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

~ Suzanne Collins

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

~ Herbert Hoover

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

~ Robert F. Kennedy

Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.

~ Richie Norton

You have been given a second chance to start your life over. You can't throw this opportunity away. If you do you will be a colossal fool. If you get the chance to do something and don't do it then you'll simply live with regret. That's a worse situation than trying something daring and maybe not succeeding. At least you tried. Isn't that what you want to show your kids?

~ Lorena Bathey

Time is limited and some opportunities never repeat themselves.

~ Belle De Jour

Opportunists seek for a chance.Entrepreneurs make new chances.

~ Toba Beta

We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.

~ Jostein Gaarder

Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

~ Julie Andrews Edwards

Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education, and healthcare, we cannot say that we have fair competition. When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.

~ Ha-Joon Chang

So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

~ Sinclair Lewis

How often had she wondered what would have happened if she'd remained with Jonathan? Not often, but regularly over the years. It was impossible not to have imagined that rejected future, a life of many countries, of vast and enduring adventure, of tiny rooms and rental houses. It was the sense of missed opportunity that returned to her, frightening but real, overwhelmingly real.

~ Michael Stein

As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.

~ Jay Abraham

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

~ Robin R. Meyers

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

~ Sinclair Lewis

Opportunity knocks only once.

~ Abah Mohd Khairul Anuar

We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.

~ Mira Grant

By focusing on possibilities, you can see more than a potential light at the end of the tunnel. The light doesn't have to be at the end of the tunnel; it can illuminate an opportunity wherever you are.

~ John B. Arden

For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured. If Phillip was with her, the solitude she needed would be shattered, and along with it whatever wondrous thing might have come her way if she had been alone.

~ Kevin Brockmeier

The truth is that there is opportunity right now in your present day. Every day offers its own set of golden opportunities.

~ Tina Sequeira

We need to ask ourselves if we are passive spectators in life as we watch it simply go by or are we ready to grab the bull by its horns and join in the action.

~ Tina Sequeira

Pause and remember: It is through our deepest trials and life hardships that we are given the greatest opportunity to find the person we have been looking for our whole life - our authentic beautiful self.

~ Jenni Young

Opportunity to help others is the opportunity to help yourself in disguise

~ Mayur Ramgir

Sure, there are little victories here and there that may seem like lucky breaks, but luck is simply when preparation meets opportunity.

~ Ari Herstand

Don't let the opportunity pass you by. Act! Do something now. Some chances never come again. Seize the moment. Seize the day! Live to the fullest. Live to YOUR fullest potential.

~ Akiroq Brost

You must look through an opportunity and not at it

~ Mayur Ramgir

Don't hang yourself with the slack you've been given.

~ Krista Ritchie

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

~ Isaac Disraeli

Sometimes one needs to stay alone, a bit of loneliness gives you the opportunity to knock on the door to your brain, and it opens with a sudden bright idea. But those who never stay alone don't even know what's inside their brains.

~ Elijah Onyenmeriogu

You don't have to believe in coincidences because they happen every day. The trick is to be able to discern when something is more than coincidence.

~ Glenn Jones

If they lacked the opportunity, the strength of their sprit would have been sapped; if they had lacked ability, the opportunity would have been wasted.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

No one remembers how you got a chance, they only remember what you did with it.

~ Stewart Stafford

Opportunities are taken or created, never given.

~ Mike Klepper

The period of time between eligibility to vote and the start of adulthood is a window of opportunity that the liberals are willing to exploit to their advantage.

~ Mike Klepper