Quotes About Opportunity

Anything is possible but most things are unlikely.

This continent is littered coast to coast with people who were compelled to study business administration when they should have been painting murals or practicing the fiddle or digging a truck garden, and finally got their chance when it was twenty years too late to lead them anywhere.

A little thing, lasting only a second, and the odds were a thousand to one that I might have had my eyes on my cards at the time and missed it. But I didn't, and, in a flash, the air seemed to clear. Some shadow lifted from my brain, and I was looking at the three men with full and absolute recognition.

I thought I might now have an opportunity to speak my last words to a multitude, which I thought would come to see me die; and, thought I, if it must be so, if God will but convert one soul by my very last words, I shall not count my life thrown away, nor lost.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.

God uses people who fail—'cause there aren't any other kind around.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

Risk must be evaluated not by the fear it generates in you or the probability of your success, but by the value of the goal.

Preparation (growth) + Attitude + Opportunity + Action (doing something about it) = Luck

The Right Thought plus the Right People in the Right Environment at the Right Time for the Right Reason = the Right Result

When it comes to taking risks, I believe there are two kinds of people: those who don't dare try new things, and those who don't dare miss them.

Today Matters People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters.

What you make of life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need - what you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours. Stay mindful of your choices!

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years. To become someone who can mine a lot of gold, you need to keep repeating the process of good thinking.

Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.

People who wait for the one great opportunity often keep waiting.

Each day is an unrepeatable miracle. Today will never happen again, so we must make it count.

God prepares leaders in a crockpot, not a microwave. More important than the awaited goal is the work God does in us while we wait. Waiting deepens and matures us, levels our perspective, and broadens our understanding. Tests of time determine whether we can endure seasons of seemingly unfruitful preparation, and indicate whether we can recognize and seize the opportunities that come our way.

There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born.… When he seizes it… it is his finest hour.

If you are to become more sensitive, you must be willing to take a risk. Take the initiative to find a need and take action.

Opportunity is in the eye of the beholder.

Hell begins on that day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts we wasted, of all that we might have done that we did not do.

The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.