Quotes and Sayings on Opportunity

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
AuntGranny Charles R. Swindoll

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Orison Swett Marden

In every difficult situation is potential value.
Norman Vincent Peale

The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the past.
Brian Koslow

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Edward de Bono

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
William James

Most people don't recognize opportunity when it comes, because it's usually dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.
Thomas Alva Edison

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Wayne Dyer

If you don't act now while it's fresh in your mind, it will probably join the list of things you were always going to do but never quite got around to. Chances are you'll also miss some opportunities.
Paul Clitheroe