Quotes about Opportunity

Depression can presnt an opportunity for reflection.

"The most profound feeling of regret is not experienced through mournful reflection, nor in awareness of our squandered capability; our most acute sense of regret is instead fashioned prior to any outcome or consequence, it is rooted in the realization that by choosing one path we inadvertently do not choose several others, thereby turning away opportunity at the street before it can even approach the door to knock."

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

We have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long as we remain honest -- which will be as long as we can keep the attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive to public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors would all become wolves. Thomas Jefferson

'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the "opportunity of exchanging error for truth"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in its "collision with error." If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that: it becomes stale, soon learned by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.'

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Always there's a space for improvement.Start building an opportunity for improvement.Just start by now,!

What kind of person would live where there is no daring?  I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

We certainly noted that when given the opportunity, women handle money more efficiently. They have long term vision, they manage money more carefully. Men are more callous with money. Their first reflex is to blow it by getting drunk in a pub, or on prostitutes or gambling. Women, on the other hand, are endowed with a tremendous sense of self-sacrifice and try to get the best out of the money, for their children, but also for their husbands.

We stare so long at our balloon in the sky that we forget we have our ice cream melting on our other hand.

Some say that opportunity knocks only once; that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it.

"An empowered organization is one which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success."

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.

Think about it. When we are so focused on achieving our goals, we often miss big, life-changing opportunities. Yes,  opportunity knocks often, sometimes softly. And more often than not, sometimes loudly. Opportunity could be screaming and yelling at us, and yet we ignore it. People who live goal-free are constantly watching for new opportunities that present themselves in unexpected ways. With open minds—and open eyes—they’re able to identify opportunities anywhere, even in unlikely places, and anytime, even in tragedy. They keep their minds clear of clutter to allow subtle messages to appear, because on the road of life you need to be on the lookout for hidden signposts.

If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.

If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.

Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

A thing is only impossible until someone does it.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

Theo says, "Visualize the opportunity; affirm it.  You create the opportunity by the energy of your thought.  It is the immediate that is important.  Thought creates reality.  Energy follows thought."
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Though we can't always see it at the time,
if we look upon events with some perspective,
we see things always happen for our best interests.
We are always being guided in a way
better than we know ourselves.

Swami Satchidananda

We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

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