Opportunity Quotes

"Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems."
Stephen R. Covey

"Opportunities are seldom labeled."
John A. Shedd

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
Sun Tzu

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
Demosthenes

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein

"Indecision is the thief of opportunity."
Jim Rohn

"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions."
Benjamin Franklin

"There is no security on this earth, only opportunity."
Douglas MacArthur

"Viewing change as an opportunity, not as a threat."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Life is The Way It Is!

"Doors of opportunity don't open, they unlock; it is up to you to turn the knob."
Lily Taylor

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
Milton Berle

"Always remember that even during the hardest of times there are lessons to be learned, and through those lessons we have an opportunity to strengthen our spirit."
Josh Hinds

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams."
W. Arthur Porter

"There are a countless number of opportunities where we can make a difference every day."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."
Thomas Edison

"Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests."
Brian Tracy

"So often, I have seen people waste energy by moaning and groaning about a problem. Yet, if they just realigned their attitude and focused on the solution or on the opportunity, the challenge would not seem as big as they think it is."
Catherine Pulsifer, from My Story

"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
John D. Rockefeller, Jr

"Don't think of problems as difficulties. Think of them as opportunities for action."
Author Unknown, from Ten Ways to Worry Less and Accomplish More

"You create your opportunities by asking for them."
Shakti Gawain

"If we encounter problems, we can either succumb to it, or we can treat it as an opportunity to become stronger and to become better individuals. Winners would always treat their dilemmas as opportunities."
Michael Lee

"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more."
Anthony Robbins

"Money-saving opportunities abound for those who are able to see potential in unlikely objects."
Cyndi Roberts

"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
Barbara Bush

"I kept my positive attitude and turned a negative experience into an opportunity."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is."
Bob Feller

"As I was watching this film it reminded me of how powerful it is having the opportunity to understand other people. We have this opportunity in our lives every day and yet how many of us take up the opportunity."
Wendy Hearn

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

"One of the saddest examples is an employed person who has the opportunity to take course to improve his skills, but instead, does nothing until he finds he no longer has a job."
Catherine Pulsifer

"Become a possibilitarian. No mater how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities-always see them for they're always there."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Be thankful for your limitations, because they give you opportunities for improvement."
Author Unknown, from Be Thankful

"Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along."
Hugh Allen

"If you accept failure as an opportunity to learn, it will change your whole perspective."
Catherine Pulsifer, from My Story

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
Harry Truman

"The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."
Helen Rowland