Quotes on Opportunity
In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Brian Tracy
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison
There comes a special moment in everyone’s life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission – a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he finds greatness. It is his finest hour.
Sir Winston Churchill
It is not impossibilities that fill us with deepest despair, but possibilities that we have failed to realize.
Robert Mallet
There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur
The great secret of success in life is for a man to be ready when his opportunity comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Nelson Rockefeller
The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility.
Calvin Coolidge
The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
Clive Staples Lewis
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Charles Kettering
I have found opportunities do not come to those who wait. They are captured by those who attack.
William Danforth
Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.
Ovid
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.
Eric Hoffer
Opportunities are merely problems that promise to pay off after sufficient work.
John Walker
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