Top 100 Opportunity Is Quotes
#1. The door to opportunity is marked push but the gateway to dreams is marked relentless prep fiend & OCD-heads only.
Ace Antonio Hall
#2. When it's time for you to write how you want your life to go just write right before your pen run out of ink because i know the opportunity is jusT once and if u miss it, then you hustle very hard to get it
Efiba Progress
#3. Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.
Orison Swett Marden
#4. Talent is universal, opportunity is not.
Vinay Singh
#5. There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.
Hugh Dancy
#6. Opportunity is swift of flight but slow to return.
Ali R.A
#7. The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.
Seth Godin
#8. Laziness in Prayer Another weakness that gives the devil opportunity is when our prayer life declines. For example, the apostles in the Garden of Olives abandoned Jesus when he most needed their presence and friendship. Instead
Ed Broom
#10. For me, every opportunity is a golden opportunity, so I just need to work as hard as I can to maintain credibility and respect and hopefully people enjoy watching me as an actor.
Aneurin Barnard
#11. You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.
Angelo Sotira
#12. I think that ultimately what drives my decisions is if I think the opportunity is going to challenge me in a way that makes me better as an actor.
Dane DeHaan
#13. In America, only opportunity is assured, not outcomes. Anyone who promises otherwise is acting contrary to the values upon which our Republic was founded.
Brad Thor
#14. Opportunity is another word for moving on. And it is a word choice, which is often the wiser. If the well gets poisoned, move to a meadow of merriment, where your hearts will echo the more.
Tom Althouse
#16. Sometimes what looks like a golden opportunity is nothing more than an iron pyrite distraction. And that's when discernment reveals itself as the truest treasure.
Torry Martin
#17. Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.
Matt Mullenweg
#18. Often people think opportunity is a matter of luck. I believe opportunities are all around us. Some seize it. Others stand and let it pass by.
Dhirubhai Ambani
#19. What the proponents of prostitution conveniently ignore is that lack of opportunity is lack of choice.
Rachel Moran
#20. Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.
Tony Honore
#21. Is there a behavior you would like to make into a habit? Then reinforce it by repeating that behavior at every opportunity. Is there a behavior you wish to change? Then substitute another one and repeat the new one often. In this way you build the kind of life you want ... day by day.
Steve Goodier
#22. Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.
Dick Feagler
#23. I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.
Steve Finley
#24. A window of opportunity is not for one to look through but for one to go through.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. The opportunity is in the problem. The moment I see a problem, I immediately begin to think about the opportunities that can be created by trying to solve it.
Strive Masiyiwa
#26. Behind every temptation is a divine reward in resisting it;
behind every divine opportunity is a reward in taking advantage of it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#27. Opportunity is sometimes hard to recognize if you're only looking for a lucky break.
Oliver Cromwell
#28. O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
Langston Hughes
#29. The life of a human being on this earth is very short - the years fly by - and the opportunity is past - forever. You know that the ONLY REASON for a human being's life on this earth is to attain to the Knowledge of God - all else is nothing, all else passes away as a wind passes away.
Violette Nakhjavani
#30. The door of opportunity is always open; you have to prepare to find it.
Debasish Mridha
#31. An interesting opportunity is actually not just thinking about building organs for patients, but actually building little tiny organs that you could do drug screening on.
Sangeeta N. Bhatia
#32. By balancing the needs of families and employers, and by extending a safe haven to those fleeing persecution, our immigration policy serves its historic purpose. Freedom and opportunity is the cornerstone of American society, and immigrants continue to embody that freedom.
Spencer Abraham
#33. I think one of the most important lessons that I've learned is to put your head down and work. Don't look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be ready. Make sure your craft is refined and you're constantly working on it.
Tika Sumpter
#34. Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today.
Gary W. Goldstein
#35. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
Greg Crabtree
#36. Great opportunity is all around you and it will inspire you to either take advantage of it or deny that it is there.
Ernie J Zelinski
#37. Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.
Sean Parker
#38. I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.
Suzan-Lori Parks
#39. The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.
Uday Kotak
#40. Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
Alexandre Dumas
#42. Broad access to opportunity is the key to a truly equitable America. No matter who you are or where you grew up, Black Faces in White Places provides a blueprint to seizing opportunities at hand - and expanding opportunity for your entire community.
Angela Glover Blackwell
#43. Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#44. Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.
John Brunner
#45. If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.
Margaret Thatcher
#47. Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn't.
Lucille Ball
#48. I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?
Omar Epps
#49. If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#50. We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts.
John W. Thompson
#51. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
John Burroughs
#52. The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
Seth Godin
#53. As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part on the success of the Latino community, and this opportunity is just one more signifier of that.
Julian Castro
#54. Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from ignorance, oppression, poverty - and freedom to - to do new things, to make choices, to learn.
Koichiro Matsuura
#55. While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.
Jack Vance
#56. Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.
Robert Breault
#57. The erosion of equal opportunity is among the greatest threats to our exceptionalism as a nation. But it also provides us with an exciting and historic opportunity: to help more people than ever achieve the American Dream.
Marco Rubio
#58. If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.
Viola Davis
#59. Two people look at the same Exercise above: One sees "Opportunity Is Nowhere" and one sees "Opportunity Is Now Here."
Ernie J Zelinski
#60. Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
Sophocles
#62. Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#63. An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.
William DeWitt Hyde
#64. Until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#65. My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.
Elizabeth Edwards
#66. We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.
Tess Gerritsen
#68. You have to seize Opportunity instinctively, without knowing at the time that it is the Opportunity. Is
Umberto Eco
#69. Opportunity is in the person, not the job.
Zig Ziglar
#70. The goal, then, isn't to draw some positioning charts and announce that you have differentiated your product. No, the opportunity is to actually create something that people choose to talk about, regardless of what the competition is doing.
Seth Godin
#71. Opportunity is never lost ... it simply moves on to someone else if you don't seize it!
Kim Garst
#72. We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
Benjamin Disraeli
#73. The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
#74. Some individuals appear to be "allergic" to honest work, but opportunity is equally allergic to them.
Napoleon Hill
#75. A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.
Richard Branson
#76. A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.
Jack Ma
#77. Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in
Orison Swett Marden
#78. There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.
Tony Abbott
#79. In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.
Frances O'Grady
#80. Opportunity is walking through your life every day in the form of people you meet.
Zig Ziglar
#81. Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days.
Ryan Lilly
#82. Incentives aren't the only thing that matter for economic growth. Opportunity is also crucial, and extreme inequality deprives many people of the opportunity to fulfill their potential, and government programs that reduce inequality can make the nation as a whole richer by reducing that waste.
Paul Krugman
#83. Opportunity is infinite; once you know that, opportunity is omni-existent.
Mark Victor Hansen
#84. Opportunity is present is wreckage as much as it is in that which is wonderful. It's not so much how it comes to us, but what we do with it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#85. I believe the sense of lost opportunity is rooted in a faulty understanding of God's grace. Likewise, when grace is grasped and embraced, the Land of Opportunity becomes yours again.
David Jeremiah
#86. Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.
Ovid
#87. Proper preparation ensures that when an opportunity is presented to you, you are ready to seize it and excel.
Tyler Basu
#88. A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.
Michael E. Gerber
#89. If I have to choose between opportunity and preparation, I'd choose preparation, without it opportunity is useless.
Saji Ijiyemi
#90. Potential is universal. Opportunity is not.
Wes Moore
#91. You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.
Mary Oliver
#92. Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it.
Tom Black
#93. Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
Hippocrates
#94. 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.
B.C. Forbes
#95. It's definitely important to be open enough to seize an opportunity when the opportunity is there.
Will Oldham
#96. Until the company believes in itself, AOL didn't have its own space and identity in the marketplace. The opportunity is to get out from under the negative history and figure out the value AOL offers for consumers and for publishers and advertisers.
Tim Armstrong
#98. While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
Quintilian
#99. Your first step in taking responsibility is to quit blaming others and quit blaming the world. You must accept that opportunity is everywhere. Opportunity is all the time. It does not disappear in the difficult times, in fact it's even greater.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#100. OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door.
Tom Peters
