Opportunity quotes

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. Tadao Ando
(also about
Potential)
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. Albert Einstein
(also about
Potential)
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important. Jim Rohn
(also about
Inspiration, Ability, Motivation)
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin. Victor Kiam
(also about
Time, Importance)
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. George Eliot
(also about
Probability)

Opportunity quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also about
Inspiration, Optimism, Potential
Every wall is a door. What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill
(also about
Optimism, Pessimism)

Opportunity quotes by Francois Voltaire

Also about
Virtue, Vice, Evil
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. Elbert Hubbard
(also about
Ability, Challenge, Potential)
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. Abraham Linkoln
(also about
Ability, Vocation, Potential)

Opportunity quotes by Thomas Alva Edison

Also about
Motivation, Loss, Ability
We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work. 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.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. Aristotle
(also about
Play of Words, Probability, Choice)
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller
(also about
Optimism)
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. Richard Bach
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. Karl Marx
(also about
Science)

Opportunity quotes by Abraham Maslow

Also about
Problems, Ability, Personality, Potential
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
 Niccolo Machiavelli
(also about
Risk)
...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances. Stephen King
(also about
Stupidity)

Opportunity quotes by Henry Ford

Also about
Inspiration, Ability, Startup, Potential, Motivation
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible. If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.' Ludwig van Beethoven
(also about
Inspiration, Freedom, Ability)
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. Steven Spielberg
(also about
Teachers, Promotion)
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. Woodrow Wilson
(also about
Politics, Equality, Society)
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. Denzel Washington
(also about
Inspiration, Laziness, Procrastination)
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. John Davison Rockefeller
(also about
Inspiration, Optimism)
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known. Ronald Reagan
(also about
Progress, Inheritance)
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open. Bob Marley
(also about
Inspiration, Ability, Motivation)

Opportunity quotes by Paulo Coelho

Also about
Inspiration, Life, Ability, Dreams, Habits
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. Benjamin Franklin
(also about
Inspiration, Success)
Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance. You yourself, either now or in the past (including the past of former lives), have created all opportunities that arise in your path. Since you have earned them, use them to the best advantage. Paramahansa Yogananda
(also about
Inspiration, Personality, Creation)
When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything. Robert Duvall
(also about
Inspiration, Ability, Knowledge, Action)
There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One was "Lord of the Rings" and one was "The Matrix."
But I was actively involved at that time raising my family, and I couldn't really take that time out. Nicolas Cage
(also about
Family)

Opportunity quotes by Muhammad Ali

Also about
Inspiration, Success, Ability, Talent, Encouraging, Potential
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.
This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it. Al Capone
(also about
Capitalism, America)
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. Richard Branson
(also about
Inspiration, Business)
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. Francis Bacon
(also about
Inspiration, Fortune)
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. Douglas MacArthur
(also about
Inspiration, Security, World)

Opportunity quotes by Oprah Winfrey

Also about
Inspiration, Love, Fear, Choice, Freedom, Education, Future, Past, Today, Ability
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. You aren't your past, you are probability of your future. The best of times is now. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you - always. You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell. I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.
We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought. Franklin D. Roosevelt
(also about
Equality, Ability)
The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that. Dmitri Mendeleev
(also about
Inspiration, Intellect, Ability, Mind, Curiosity)
So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting. Sinclair Lewis
(also about
Revolution, Patience, Waiting)
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more. Roald Dahl
(also about
Progress, World, Boredom)

Opportunity quotes by Haruki Murakami

Also about
Time, Freedom, Money, Finance, Future, Regret, Past, Anxiety
You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes. Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. Walt Whitman
(also about
Inspiration, Life, Ability, Motivation, Contribution)
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. Jane Austen
(also about
Education, Sexism, Men, Women's rights)
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. Franz Kafka
(also about
Inspiration, Ability)

Opportunity quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Also about
Ability, Waste, Love, Advice, Sex, Morality
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. And yet another moral occurs to me now: make love when you can.
It's good for you.
I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again. John Steinbeck
(also about
Inspiration, Wisdom, Life, Advice)
In all my work, I try to say - "You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?" Maya Angelou
(also about
Inspiration, Work, Optimism, Creativity)
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. Nikita Khrushchev
(also about
Ability)