Opportunity Quotes

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. (Thomas Edison)
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. View quote
Hippocrates
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. View quote
Winston Churchill
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. View quote
Publilius Syrus
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. View quote
Paulo Coelho
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.. View quote
Pancho Villa
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. View quote
Lily Tomlin
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. View quote
Florence Nightingale
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed. View quote
Kanye West
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. View quote
Margaret Mead
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. View quote
Maya Angelou
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. (Lucille Ball)
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. View quote
Betty Friedan
First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect. View quote
Kathy Najimy
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. View quote
Gordon Moore
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy