Top 100 Seize Opportunity Quotes
#1. 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
#2. We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity and then maybe something good happens, and you call that luck.
Michael Mann
#3. You have to seize Opportunity instinctively, without knowing at the time that it is the Opportunity. Is
Umberto Eco
#4. Seize opportunity by the forelock and see where it leads you.
Armand Hammer
#5. You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.
Clive Davis
#6. Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.
Orison Swett Marden
#7. I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.
J.K. Rowling
#8. Forget seizing the moment. Seize the opportunity.
Tim Fargo
#9. Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
Horace
#10. There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
J. Paul Getty
#11. Opportunity is never lost ... it simply moves on to someone else if you don't seize it!
Kim Garst
#12. This was always the case with North Korea. It was like the bad boyfriend whose presence could never be depended on, so you always had to seize the opportunity to spend time with him when he made himself available.
Suki Kim
#13. By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once.
Rumi
#14. Independent film is such a huge deal in the UK. There aren't many big budget studio movies that get greenlit at all. The indie film industy is a great opportunity that I'm trying to seize.
Aml Ameen
#15. We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many.
Francine Rivers
#16. The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.
Confucius
#17. In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.
Hank Aaron
#18. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." Harry S. Truman
Shar McBee
#19. I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people ... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
Kofi Annan
#20. I take every opportunity to articulate to others the ways that they have blessed and influenced me. I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity to thank teachers who have influenced me. I encourage everyone to seize opportunities to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#21. That may prevent us from getting a deal done, It is there to be had. Whether ultimately Iran can seize that opportunity - we will have to wait and see, but it is not for lack of trying on our part.
Barack Obama
#22. Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view - what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities? When you answer that, seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities even more sharply by applying your focused effort.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#23. Proper preparation ensures that when an opportunity is presented to you, you are ready to seize it and excel.
Tyler Basu
#24. With each game I play, with each season I play, I'm running out of chances ... you're never guaranteed next year. You're never guaranteed the next game. You have to seize the opportunity when it's there in front of you.
Brett Favre
#25. Being a winner sometimes has little to do with the score. If your players seize the opportunity to be better today than they were yesterday in softball, in math, in music, in anything worth doing in life, regardless of natural ability, that will make them winners on and off the field.
Lawrence Hsieh
#26. Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
Richard M. Nixon
#27. Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#28. If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.
Mark Batterson
#29. Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
#30. I believe in opportunity and the power of reason to seize upon it.
Spartacus
#31. Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.
Al Capone
#33. We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.
Russell E. Train
#34. Your purpose on earth is to participate in this human experience and to seize the opportunity within each day to reveal the greatest version of yourself.
Steve Maraboli
#36. 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
#37. Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain
William James
#38. 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
#39. Good players create opportunities. The great players and the great people seize them
Mia Hamm
#40. There is something remarkable about each one of us. Seize the opportunity to look within and rediscover yourself.
Roopleen
#41. Great losses come when we move too quickly; great victories come when we wait and seize the right opportunity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#42. 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
#43. With the ambitions, to seize the opportunity to win is your big loss.
Auliq Ice
#44. Whenever there's a tragedy involving gun use, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, the gun-control lobby and the news media seize it as another opportunity to exploit the emotions of uninformed American people for political gain.
Walter E. Williams
#45. With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.
Orison Swett Marden
#46. When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#47. A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.
Marcel Herrmann Telles
#48. Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
Aidan Chambers
#49. Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.
William James
#50. 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
#51. The world can therefore seize the opportunity (the Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind.
George H. W. Bush
#52. Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.
Bob Taft
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. There's always opportunity in the now. If I'm there, I will seize it.
Michelle Waterson
#56. 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
#57. 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.
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.
Arthur Brisbane
#62. 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
#63. Just seize every opportunity you have, embrace every experience. Make a mark, for all the right reasons.
Chrissie Wellington
#64. This is your moment! Seize the opportunity to be great!
Eric Thomas
#65. Inbetween yesterday's regret and tomorrow's dream is today's opportunity. Seize the chance!
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#66. Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel?
Jane Austen
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. The best adventures in life is in the present. Seize the present and make it great adventure.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.
Satya Nadella
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
Mike Huckabee
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. If you don't seize the opportunity, how do you know what will happen? Sometimes you have to take the chance
Eileen Cook
#90. 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
#91. 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.
#92. To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#94. Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.
Robert Breault
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.
Anthony Anderson
#98. 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
#99. It's definitely important to be open enough to seize an opportunity when the opportunity is there.
Will Oldham
#100. You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?
Xunzi
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
