Quotes About Opportunity

Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.

A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.

You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars, because each day is different.

Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Time is the stuff life's made of.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. ... You might not be home.

If you want to succeed in the world, you must make your own opportunities.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line? Will it be everything you dreamed of? We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Men do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

If a man looks sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Know thine opportunity.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.