Opportunity
191 quotes: 11 by Keith Craft, 180 from other voices.
Other voices on Opportunity
- Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in
- Opportunity is something a Fool waits for while the Wise Guy runs down the road to meet it.
- Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
- Our mindset is everything: what one person sees as a crisis, another person sees as opportunity.
- Our only security is our ability to change.
- Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
- Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
- Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
- Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject, to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
- Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
- Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
- Some of us have no vision past the next meal. Let us be men and women of sight, for opportunity is knocking everywhere.
- Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.
- Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.
- The bars of life at which we fret, That seem to prison and control, Are but the doors of daring, set Ajar before the soul.
- The best men are not those who have waited for chances, but who have taken them,--besieged the chance, conquered the chance, and made the chance their servitor.
- The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis". One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger — but recognize the opportunity.John F. KennedySourced
- The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found at last to be of our own producing.
- The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
- The harder I prepare, the luckier I seem to get.
- The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now.
- The place where you are now is vital. The path toward victory opens from where you stand.
- The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because, when opportunity knocks, they are out looking for four-leaf clovers.
- The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.
- The secret of success in life, is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity.
- The time to prepare isn't after you have been given the opportunity. It's long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it's too late to prepare.
- The wealth of both the Indies cannot redeem one single opportunity which you have once let slip.
- The winds of misfortune always bring some seeds of opportunity.
- There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skilful men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt.
- There are no chances so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn to their own disadvantage.
- 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. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
- There is an hour in each man's life appointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it.John FletcherSourced
- There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
- There is just less competition for bigger goals.
- There is never but one opportunity of a kind.Henry David ThoreauCommonly attributed
- There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.
- Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
- Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
- Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.