The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success.
Opportunity Quotes
Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are.
Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
When one door is shut, another opens.
One man’s opportunism is another man’s statesmanship.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
The Chinese call luck opportunity and they say it knocks every day at your door. Some people hear it; some do not. It’s not enough to hear opportunity knock. You must let him in, greet him, make friends and work together.