Opportunity Quotes And Sayings

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“Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.”
– Earl Nightingale 

“Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.”
– Ebner-Eschenbach

“Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.”
– Emily Dickinson

“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.” 
– Eric Hoffer 

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
– Francis Bacon

“A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.”
– Francis Bacon

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
– Francois Bacon 

“It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.” 
– Frederick Phillips

“There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.” 
– General Douglas Macarthur 

“It’s them as take advantage that get advantage I’ this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it’s brought to ‘em.”
– George Eliot

“What is opportunity to the man who can’t use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.”
– George Eliot

“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
– Harry Truman

“I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour.  I dripped it carelessly, Ah!  I didn’t know, I held opportunity.”
– Hazel Lee

“The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.”
– Helen Rowland

“Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”
– Henry David Thoreau 

“Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.” 
– Henry J. Kaiser 

“Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.” 
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

“A man who misses his opportunity, and monkey who misses his branch, cannot be saved.” 
– Hindu Proverb 

“Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.”
– Hugh Allen

“Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.”
– Hugh Miller

“If God shuts one door, He opens another.” 
– Irish Propverb

“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions ? it only guarantees equality of opportunity.”
– Irving Kristol 

“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.” 
– James F. Byrnes 

“Individual opportunity is a powerful component of American ideology, powerful enough to elicit support for the system from all quarters, even from many exploited and unorganized workers who are at their bosses’ mercy. If workers destined to be used up and discarded by employers cling nevertheless to “the American Way,” it is not because they are ignorant of their destiny, but because they sense it. They feel that their only ray of hope for a satisfying life emanates from the “opportunity” the American system provides.”
– Jeff Schmidt

“Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.” 
– Jeremy Collier 

“Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.”
– Jerome K. Jerome

“The right man is the one who seizes the moment.” 
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 

“The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.” 
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 

“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” 
– John Burroughs 

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