Seize An Opportunity Quotes

#1. It's definitely important to be open enough to seize an opportunity when the opportunity is there.

Will Oldham

#2. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back. She began to feel an urgency, a need to seize an opportunity. Before anyone else did.

M.L. Stedman

#3. He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.

Khalil Gibran

#4. Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

#5. If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.

Mark Batterson

#6. Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.

Naveen Jain

#7. In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity ... I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

Mark McCormack

#8. Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.

Anthony Anderson

#9. We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.

Barack Obama

#10. This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Al Capone

#11. I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

John Gielgud

#12. Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities.

Michael Josephson

#13. Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you can, and use it to change the world.

Rodney Williams Jr.

#14. To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#15. Seize any opportunity or anything that looks like opportunity.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

#16. Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.

Robert Breault

#17. Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.

Michael Porter

#18. 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

#19. The tsunami that cleared the shoreline like a giant bulldozer has presented developers with an undreamed-of opportunity, and they have moved quickly to seize it. - Seth Mydans, International Herald Tribune, March 10,

Naomi Klein

#20. I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.

John Updike

#21. It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

Mike Huckabee

#22. He who is blind cannot see opportunities.
He who is deaf cannot hear opportunities.
He who is lame cannot seize opportunities.
He who is ignorant cannot know opportunities.
He who is enlightened cannot miss opportunities.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.

Robert Muller

#24. You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?

Sri Chinmoy

#25. The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.

Satya Nadella

#26. You may have had someone ask you, "What can I do for you?" Instead of postponing the offer by responding with "I'll let you know," seize the opportunity with a specific response. What's even better is when your answer benefits the both of you.

Lisa A. Mininni

#27. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Gary Ryan Blair

#28. If you don't seize the opportunity, how do you know what will happen? Sometimes you have to take the chance

Eileen Cook

#29. Proper preparation ensures that when an opportunity is presented to you, you are ready to seize it and excel.

Tyler Basu

#30. As legal residents, immigrants would contribute more in taxes, spend more at our businesses, start companies of their own and create more jobs. Immigration is not a problem for us to solve but an opportunity for America to seize.

Jose Andres

#31. Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.

Sophie Kinsella

#32. The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

Maggie Gallagher

#33. This is your moment! Seize the opportunity to be great!

Eric Thomas

#34. The best adventures in life is in the present. Seize the present and make it great adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. Seize opportunity by the forelock and see where it leads you.

Armand Hammer

#36. We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. The days are always dark enough. There is no need for us to emphasize the fact by spreading further gloom.

George Madison Adams

#37. You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#38. You're being opportunistic."
"I won't deny it. Why don't you seize the opportunity, as well? I want to kiss you. And you need kissing, desperately.

Tessa Dare

#39. Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.

James F. Byrnes

#40. Whoever has not experienced the pleasure of taking a young lady to her first game of ball should seize the first opportunity to do so. Her remarks about plays, her opinions of different players and the umpire, and the questions she will ask concerning the game, are all too funny to be missed.

John Montgomery Ward

#41. I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.

Eric Thomas

#42. Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!

Jean Van Hamme

#43. You're always trying to seize any opportunity or hold on to one if you already have it. It was just a matter of going out there and producing for the team.

Jose Bautista

#44. Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?

Jane Austen

#45. Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.

Colleen McCullough

#46. Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

Vint Cerf

#47. Just seize every opportunity you have, embrace every experience. Make a mark, for all the right reasons.

Chrissie Wellington

#48. Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?

Eminem

#49. The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

Arthur Brisbane

#50. What we have done though is consistently looked for additional opportunities to get stuff done. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing wages, creating more jobs, making sure that more people are able to access opportunity, we're gonna seize it.

Barack Obama

#51. Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.

Andre Dubus III

#52. It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art of blaming the agency for their own failures. I seize the earliest opportunity to assume the blame.

David Ogilvy

#53. The greatest writers in the world have stolen the greatest Story ever told, time and time again. Christians should recognize this Story and seize the opportunity presented by this towering influence.

Gene C. Fant Jr.

#54. In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

Alexander Alekhine

#55. There's always opportunity in the now. If I'm there, I will seize it.

Michelle Waterson

#56. When the opportunity was at your hand, you did not dare to seize it. When the opportunity was lost, it became precious.

George R. Stewart

#57. Inbetween yesterday's regret and tomorrow's dream is today's opportunity. Seize the chance!

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#58. You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?

Xunzi