Opportunity Quotes

A wise man makes more opportunities than he finds. (Francis Bacon, 1561-1620)

It would rather be an opportunist and float than to go to the bottom with my principles round my neck. (Stanley Baldwin, 1867-1947)

Opportunity, n. a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. (Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914)

When one door is shut, another opens. (Cervantes, 1547-1616)

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (Winston Churchill, 1874-1965)

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. (Thomas A. Edison, 1847- 1931)

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein, 1879-1955)

He who seizes the (right) moment is the right man. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832)

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen Keller, 1880-1968)

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality. (Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968)

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. (Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924)

I despise making the most of one's time: half the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 1841-1935)

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