Opportunity Quotes

"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity." John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving." Maxwell Maltz

"Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs." Mario Andretti

"If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness." Les Brown

"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." Whitney Young, Jr.

"Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one." Kirk Kirkpatrick

"There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from." Francois La Rochefoucauld

"We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. Dale Carnegie

"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily." Sally Koch

"Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. . . . you might not be home." Jinger Heath

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." Demmosthenes

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science." Albert Einstein

"You create your opportunities by asking for them." Patty Hansen

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

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. Mary Tyler Moore

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." George Bernard Shaw

"They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time." John S. Mill

"Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them." Samuel Smiles

"Nowadays some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with a remote control. " M. Charles Wheeler

"Some men go through a forest and see no firewood." English Proverb

"It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity." George Matthew Adams

"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." John F. Kennedy

"If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances." Julia Soul

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." Henry Ford

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." Seneca

"You don't just luck into things, you build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities." Barbara Bush

View change as an opportunity
Change is coming at all of us at a rapid pace. You must accept that change is inevitable. Rather than resisting the change, you look for opportunities and ways to make change work to the benefit of the team. Byron & Catherine Pulsifer from, More Common Traits of a Coach

"I don't know anything of luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't." Lucille Ball

"Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman." Finley Peter Dunne

"Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities." Terry Josephson

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare." Dale Carnegie

"The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire." Brian Tracy

"Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities." Orison Swett Marden

"Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity." B. C. Forbes

"Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want." Marsha Sinetar

" The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today." Les Brown

"You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success." Og Mandino

"Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do." Author Unknown

"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination." Ralph Marston

"Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities." Oprah Winfrey

"I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come." Abraham Lincoln

"Be thankful when you don't know something, for it gives you the opportunity to learn." Author Unknown, from the poem, Be Thankful