Quotes About Opportunity

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. ... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

The successful man is one who had the chance and took it.

Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost possible achievement-these are the martial virtues which must command success.

Opportunity knocks but once.

If Fortune calls, offer him a seat.

Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.

Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.

Opportunity rarely knocks until you are ready. And few people have ever been really ready without receiving opportunity's call.

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

The world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

If you want your ship to come in, you must build a dock.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.

Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.

Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!