Opportunity
191 quotes: 11 by Keith Craft, 180 from other voices.
Other voices on Opportunity
- Let your daily wisdom of life be in making a good use of the opportunities given you.
- Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.
- Life is but another name for action; and he who is without opportunity exists, but does not live.
- Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
- Luck favors the mind that is prepared.
- Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.
- Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves, will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not lie ready to their hand, they will make them.
- More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
- Nature makes merit but fortune sets it to work.
- Never assume it’s too late, but remember you don’t have forever.
- Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
- Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
- No accidents are so unlucky but that the prudent may draw some advantage from them; nor are there any so lucky but that the imprudent may turn to their prejudice.
- No” simply means begin again at one level higher.
- No such thing as a 'non-leader.' Every day offers every one of us scads of leadership opportunities.
- Nothing is so hard, but search will find it out.
- Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.
- Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of daily occurrence.
- Nothing is so plentiful in America as opportunity. There are more jobs for forceful men than there are forceful men to fill them.Charles M. SchwabSourced
- Nourish what makes you feel confident, connected, contented. Opportunity will rise to meet you.
- Occasion may be the bugle call that summons an army to battle, but the blast of a bugle can never make soldiers nor win battles.
- Once you learn patience, your options suddenly expand.
- Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Opportunities are easily lost, with difficulty found.
- Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
- Opportunities are swarming around us all the time, thicker than gnats at sundown. We walk through a cloud of them.Henry van DykeCommonly attributed
- Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
- Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.
- Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
- Opportunities grow stale unless promptly seized and used.
- Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Opportunities of some type or other are ever around us; they whisper or thunder in every man's ear and pass in some way and at some time every man's door.
- Opportunities should never be lost, because they can hardly be regained.
- Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.
- Opportunity does not lie in the job; it lies in the individual who looks at the possibilities instead of the problems.
- Opportunity has hair in front, but is bald behind; if you meet her, seize her by the forelock, for Jove himself cannot catch her again if once let slip.François RabelaisCommonly attributed
- Opportunity is a golden word, and is itself more precious than rubies.
- Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.Booker T. WashingtonCommonly attributed
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.