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Opportunity Quotes


"It's not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it's about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives."


"Don't lose your time gazing at the spilled milk. There are other cows to milk."


"It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that."


"The latent abundance of your inner most resources matters less. What matter most is the impact you can make with your inner resources and the distinctive footprints you can leave with what is within you. The excuse not to dare is there for everybody. When you see so many people crowded at the entrance, think of the roofing and if the roofing is too high, think of the next door and if the next door is not penetrable, create a door within the wall."


"It may be that you've just missed a great opportunity that should have been your turning point towards the direction of greatness. What next? Go into your closet and learn your lessons; "opportunity missed may not be regained, but new opportunity can be recreated with the will that have to work harder!"


"There will never be another day such as this one, with all the variables of life combining in such a way to form this opportunity. So don't let it go, grab it."


"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."


"The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring."


"Opportunity will not only knock on the door when you are ready, it will stand just next to the door to open it."


"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."


"Joblessness gives you unlimited access to wealth."



"Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place."


"Sometimes you can miss the boat and find a new life."


"Whatever you are waiting for won't come to you, you have to go for it."


"Each new day offers the chance to start afresh, to achieve those things you most desires."


"Other opportunities arise from time to time that almost don't accord with the overall situation, opportunities whereby a word, a glance, a sigh of trust may achieve more than a lifetime of exhausting endeavour."


"All things are possible; if something seems like it's not, it's only because enough people aren't being deceived into the possibilities yet."


"How much longer will you wait until you take a chance on yourself?"


"Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name."


"It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try."


"One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity."


"Everything in the world is potentially yours. Don't limit yourself to your own means."


"Joblessness is an opportunity to fulfill purpose."


"The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way."


"Just like watering the field will cause both the desired seed and the undesirable weed to germinate, the opportunities for your mission in life will be equally presented with real-life threats."


"The world has been given a treasure through which its inhabitants can attain greatness if they so desire."


"Tanacity is the dance within the art of opportunity."


"If opportunity doesn't come knocking at your door, build a brand."


"When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."


"One who swims with the tide and not the other side will benefit from the opportunity that flows."


"First opportunity is the golden opportunity."


"Stand up for what's right for you when the time's right. Wake up to grab it as soon as possible. Shake up when you wake up, never miss opportunities that could clearly set you up for a breakthrough!"


"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."


"Joblessness opens the door for greater opportunities."


"Doors of opportunity are always open around you-you just have to find them."


"Never worry about what others have, worry about what you have and refuse to use. Someone else will also worry about what you have when you begin to make use of it!"


"When in crises situation, never mourn along with the crises, rather speak to the crises saying, "Crises what opportunities are you hiding for me."



"When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?"


"If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble's apparel, do not scorn it."


"We're constantly presented with opportunity, or the opportunity to create opportunity."


"Don't wait for opportunity in front of a closed door-wander until you find the open one."


"God gives absolutely everybody the opportunity to be successful in life."


"The present offers fresh opportunities."


"Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists."


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


"During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened."


"In your tragedies you will find your most magnificent opportunities for rebirth."


"When life gives you a second chance, don't just run with it fly."


"Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him."
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