Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Opportunity

God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.
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Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
Janet Erskine Stuart (1857–1914) English Catholic Nun, Educationalist

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (b.1940) American Self-Help Author

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
Ask Ann Landers (1918–2002) American Advice Columnist

A wise man doesn’t just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.
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Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) American Unitarian Theologian, Poet

Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement—these are the martial virtues which must command success.
Austin Phelps (1820–90) American Presbyterian Clergyman, Educator, Theologian

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
Shirley Hufstedler (1925–2016) American Lawyer, Jurist

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

There is 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 we are now afloat; and we must take the current the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own “acres of diamonds.”
Earl Nightingale (1921–89) American Motivational Speaker, Author

Opportunity makes a thief.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can … As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State

For truth and duty it is ever the fitting time; who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm—it was gone.
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The back of one door is the face of another.
Common Proverb

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
John Burroughs (1837–1921) American Naturalist, Writer

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.
Greek Proverb

Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
Bayard Taylor (1825–78) American Poet, Literary Critic, Translator, Translator

Don’t wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Charles F. Richter (1900–85) American Physicist, Geologist

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser (1882–1967) American Industrialist

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has any one who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth, any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
Og Mandino (1923–96) American Self-Help Author

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German Philosopher, Economist

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
Richard Branson (b.1950) British Entrepreneur

It’s better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Whitney Young (1921–71) American Civil Rights Leader

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.
James A. Garfield (1831–81) American Head of State, Lawyer, Educator

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