Opportunity
191 quotes: 11 by Keith Craft, 180 from other voices.
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- Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.John D. RockefellerSourced
- Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to a man exactly what his antecedents have enabled him to make of it.
- Victory awaits him who has everything in order — luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time; this is called bad luck.Roald AmundsenSourced
- Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.
- We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
- We can’t control all the variables in our lives. It’s about what we do with opportunities revoked or presented to us that determine how a story ends.
- We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
- We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.Benjamin DisraeliSourced
- What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
- What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
- What you call hindrances, obstacles, discouragements, are probably God's opportunities; and it is nothing new that the patient should dislike his medicines, or any certain proof that they are poisons.
- When crisis and disaster strike, don’t waste them. No problems, no progress.
- When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
- When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.
- When you look at the possibilities instead of the problems, the future is filled with endless opportunities
- When you think about it, probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.
- Where one door shuts, another opens.
- Who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.William ShakespeareSourced
- Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.
- You can wait for a miracle, but it's generally a better strategy to meet it halfway.
- You create your opportunities by asking for them.
- You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
- You must first know what people need, and then invest yourself where you are most needed.
- You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
- You never see anything great over your back fence.
- Young man, remember if you know what people need you have gotten more knowledge of a fortune than any amount of capital can give you.
- Youth is the opportunity to do something and to become somebody.
- You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.
- Opportunities of a lifetime must be seized in the lifetime of the opportunity.Leonard RavenhillCommonly attributed
- Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.Louis L'AmourCommonly attributed