Opportunity Quotes

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.

The Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

Three rules of work: (1) Out of clutter, find simplicity; (2) From discord, find harmony; (3) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

There is a tide in the affairs of women, Which, taken at the flood, leads God knows where.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

We must snatch the present moment, and employ it well, without too much solicitude for the future, and content ourselves with reflecting that our part is performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions […]