Opportunity Quotes

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

Francis Bacon

"Let them be sea-captains, if you will."

Margaret Fuller

"All of us do not have equal talent. But, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents."

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."

Seneca

"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Say yes, and you'll figure it out afterward."

Tina Fey

"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."

Mary McLeod Bethune

"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men."

Horace Mann

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

Bobby Unser

"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."

Thomas Carlyle

"All of us do not have equal talent. But all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents."

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Albert Einstein

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

Wayne Gretzky

"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish."

Ovid

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

Seneca

"America is another name for opportunity."

"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

“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.”

“To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”

“Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.”