Top 76 Waiting For An Opportunity Quotes
#1. Every morning we rise up from our beds and death is there, hanging over us, waiting for an opportunity. Life is a gamble, husband. The question is, will you play your hand when the risk is at its greatest?
Kristen Callihan
#2. I have been sitting around waiting for an opportunity to get to do something that matters for so long. Not just that matters in the world, which I think that season, in particular, had a very important meaning for a lot of people, but for me, as an actress.
Sarah Paulson
#3. You mean you want me to throw rocks at a bunch of monkeys in a tree in order to compete for food and prove that I, man, am the superior species? Chica," he said, clicking his tongue, "I've been waiting for an opportunity like this my whole life.
Jessica Khoury
#4. That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.
Kristin Hannah
#5. There always seems to be someone looking over your shoulder - just waiting for an opportunity to lecture on The Darker Side of Chocolate
Sandra Boynton
#6. What is most difficult is when the large part of me that is a narcissist grows weary and is overtaken by the self-loathing part that always lurks in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to shine.
Greg Fitzsimmons
#7. passivity means waiting for an opportunity,
Sun Tzu
#8. Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.
Melanie Phillips
#9. Impulses like that, I answered myself, that seemed to come from nowhere, they weren't really impulses at all, they were decisions already made but waiting for an opportunity to be spoken aloud.
Dick Francis
#10. Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing.
Leo Tolstoy
#11. For just this moment, we have the closest thing to an advantage we're likely to get. And if we don't use it, we're gonna lose it. Look at me busting out all the tired old metaphors. Like I'd been saving them all winter just waiting for an opportunity to trot them out.
Cherie Priest
#12. Do I ever get tired of being the first female everything? Not really, I just happened to be in a position where the job that I wanted was not really there for me. I had to create an opportunity instead of waiting for an opportunity.
Ronda Rousey
#13. I turned just in time to see Tyson punch Skull Eater in the face. The giant crumpled. But the last giant, Joe Bob, had wisely held on to his own ball, waiting for an opportunity. He threw just as Tyson was turning to face him.
Rick Riordan
#14. I think the guys are starting to rally around my leadership style and the way I do things. I've been waiting for this opportunity my whole life.
Aaron Rodgers
#15. Once upon a time I would've leaped at the rare opportunity of curling up with Mom on
the couch. But now it sort of felt like too little too late. I had someone else waiting for
me.
Maggie Stiefvater
#16. One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: 'Preach the gospel at all times and if necessary, use words.' Opportunities to do so are all around us. Do not miss them by waiting too long on the road to Damascus.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#17. If opportunity doesn't knock build a door and open it, stop waiting around for someone to give it to you.
Tilicia Haridat
#18. Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.
Salma Hayek
#19. If you haven't arrived yet, keep driving, your destiny is waiting for you.
Rob Liano
#20. But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
Anna Neagle
#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. The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#23. We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.
Adam Rayner
#24. They speak little; it is as if the air has been churned up with decade's worth of fruitless pursuit and missed connections and thoughts unspoken, and they are waiting quietly for all this matter - these motes of opportunity forgone - to settle around them.
Doug Dorst
#25. Zeal and duty are not slow
But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
John Milton
#26. Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.
Kirk Kirkpatrick
#27. People who wait for the one great opportunity often keep waiting.
John C. Maxwell
#28. Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.
Carl Sagan
#29. You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.
Russell Simmons
#31. Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.
Sarah Carter
#32. While you're waiting on opportunity, it might be waiting on you to come to it. Get up and go get it!
Yvonne Pierre
#33. To some, challenges are exhausting. To others, they are opportunities in waiting.
Tony DiCicco
#34. I just stood their frozen, waiting for my opportunity to strike.
Rachel Higginson
#35. Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none ... so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,
Arnold Rothstein
#36. The animal is making quite a mess," the butler droned.
"Are you referring to the monkey, or to my nephew?" Fennington drawled, strolling into the room.
"Hm. How long did you lurk outside the room waiting forthat opportunity?" Bennett asked
Suzanne Enoch
#37. The people of the world could be divided into two groups: those who used all of their chances, and those who stood still through opportunity after opportunity, waiting for a moment that would never be perfect.
Jade Chang
#38. Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
Oliver Burkeman
#39. I just told my agent to forget all other projects for me. I was waiting for Audrey Hepburn. She asked for me, and I was ready. This could be the last and only opportunity I'd have to work with the great and lovely Audrey Hepburn and I was not missing it. Period.
Fred Astaire
#40. You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.
Shonda Rhimes
#41. Stop being a victim and waiting for somebody else to open up an opportunity for you!
Eric Thomas
#42. REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.
Rick Bayan
#43. If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.
Mark Batterson
#44. I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.
Sidney Altman
#45. The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains.
Victor Sperandeo
#46. I've just always been very aware and careful of everything, so that I can be ready for the perfect opportunities as they come. I don't take anything for granted or wait for anything to come to me.
Katy Perry
#47. Waiting for opportunities is patience;
creating opportunities is intelligence.
Reaping from opportunities is competence;
multiplying opportunities is brilliance.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#48. Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.
Andrew Forrest
#49. Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!
When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE!
Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
#50. My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.
Agapi Stassinopoulos
#51. Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.
Thomas Lennon
#52. Every day, I find countless opportunities to decide whether I will obey God and demonstrate my love for Him or try to please myself or the world system. God is waiting for my choices.
Bill Bright
#53. Every day, there is a golden opportunity just waiting to be discovered.
Tammy L. Kubasko
#54. You have to constantly be doing something and not just wait for someone to call you with an opportunity, you have to develop your own projects.
Kate Del Castillo
#55. The opportunity to completely become someone else and inhabit them is something that has always fascinated me greatly as an actor. With a bit of fortune, a few more of those opportunities will lie waiting for me in the future.
Adhir Kalyan
#56. Grumph let out a harrumph, which indicated either that he was unharmed and waiting patiently for a new opportunity to arise, or that a sparrow had shit in his porridge.
Drew Hayes
#57. What we do with our lives every day, whether at school, a desk job, or keeping the home in order, is our most basic opportunity to glorify God. That's what your role in His story looks like day in and day out. Instead of waiting to be offered a new role, play the current one well.
Trip Lee
#58. Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
Joan Collins
#59. I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.
Allan McNish
#60. Alert expectancy. What an exciting way to look at things! Our faith in Christ gives us the opportunity to live in a state of alert expectancy; patiently waiting for what God will do next. People who choose this path will one day look back in amazement at what God did.
Richard Blackaby
#61. It's difficult in my position because you are just waiting on injuries and that's often when your opportunity comes at this point into the season, ... You never wish anyone ill health, but that's the reality of the business.
Jesse Palmer
#62. None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
Kathleen Norris
#63. There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.
Ellen MacArthur
#64. Life really is a most whimsical thing. While we consistently try and chart its route, it goes ahead and takes its own turn. Just follow the paths it lays out before you. And you may find, at some sudden turn, a miracle waiting just for you.
Jyoti Arora
#65. Is there a reason why you seek every opportunity to annoy me?"
"It's fun. Your scar flashes when you frown. It almost looks like a dimple," said Vikram. "I'm still waiting for your face to turn red with anger. It might make you look like you're blushing. Or perhaps I am making you blush?
Roshani Chokshi
#66. Producers think in the language of abundance rather than scarcity, take initiative instead of waiting for someone else to provide them with opportunity, and boldly venture wise risks instead of surrendering to fear that they can't make a difference.
Oliver DeMille
#67. Too often, we miss out on opportunities in this life because we were too busy waiting for them to fall into our lap that we missed them tapping on our shoulder.
Daniel Willey
#68. If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.
Jack Sparrow
#69. Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.
Robin Sharma
#72. An opportunity is a miracle waiting to happen.
Rue Allyn
#73. Crowds of questions stream through me like lines of people exiting a soccer ground or a concert. They push and shove and trip. Some make their way around. Some remain in their seats, waiting for their opportunity.
Markus Zusak
#74. When it comes to loving people, let's not allow it to be something we do on the side. Let's make it a lifestyle. Whether we are at the gas station, picking up groceries, even waiting to get our car repaired, there is always an open opportunity to love someone in need.
Jarrid Wilson
#75. Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting patiently for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place- I've always done that.
Bette Midler
#76. The news media tends to act like the kids on a young soccer team. We all follow the ball as it moves from one side of the field to the next - like a kids' soccer game. And the kid who ends up scoring a goal was the one who's off to the corner by himself just waiting for the opportunity.
Steve Capus
