quotations about opportunity
Opportunity is the great bawd.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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Poor Richard's Almanac, 1735
It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready to take advantage of them.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
Many 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.
T. JONES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Fools wait for opportunities in order to do everything; able men wait only for such chances as they themselves are unable to create.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
attributed, Day's Collacon
Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.
JAMES GEARY
Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.
GEORGE ADE
"The Undecided Bachelor", Knocking the Neighbors
Bad chances were better than no chances.
STEPHEN KING
Under the Dome
Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Architects of Fate
Opportunity is one of those things that depend greatly on the eye of the beholder.
ANDREW SANCHEZ
Technical Support Essentials
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
Opportunities are importunities; they are like flowers that fade at night; seize them, therefore, while they last.
G. S. BOWES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Danger will wink on opportunity.
JOHN MILTON
Comus
Master of human destinies am I!
Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait,
Cities and fields I walk: I penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late
I knock unbidden once at every gate!
If sleeping, wake: if feasting, rise before
I turn away. It is the hour of fate
And they who follow me reach every state
Mortals desire and conquer every foe
Save death: but those who doubt or hesitate,
Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
Seek me in vain and uselessly implore--
I answer not, and I return no more!
JOHN J. INGALLS
"Opportunity"
Opportunity to a statesman is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.
SIR JOHN SUCKLING
attributed, Day's Collacon
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE
Meditations for Women
An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.
WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE
Vocations
Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities.
ROY T. BENNETT
The Light in the Heart
Your opportunity is just as good, perhaps even better, than any other man's. Get to work where you are. And get to work right now.
WILLIAM A. RADFORD
Cement World, April 15, 1908
Although opportunity is more definite than luck, and is apparently governed by more distinguishable laws, it cannot always be corralled and is at times elusive. It is an undeniable fact that equal opportunity does not present itself with apparent fairness; but it is also as positive a fact that opportunity is likely to come to those who seek it, and to avoid those who make no effort to meet it or to prepare themselves to entertain it when it does come.
NATHANIEL CLARK FOWLER
Getting a Start