Opportunity Quotes

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Here are some great opportunity quotes that I’m sure you’ve seen once or twice before.  I just thought you could use a reminder.

Opportunities are always everywhere, learn to see and create them. -Jacob Gelt Dekker

 
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. -Henry J. Kaiser

 
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -Francis Bacon

 
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -?

 
We do not need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have. -Basil S. Walsh

 
Opportunity… Often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. -Napoleon Hill

 
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on the opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter. -B.C Forbes

 
Success doesn’t come to you…you go to it. -Marva Collins

 
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity. -Helen Schucman and William Thetford

 
There may not be a second opportunity so just don’t spoil the first chance. -Delno Tromp

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

 
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find, make them. -George Bernard Shaw

 
The golden opportunity you are seeking is yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. -Orison Swett Marden

 
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. -Bruce Barton

 
Opportunities? They are all around us… There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. -Orison Swett Marden

 
When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.  -Alexander Graham Bell

 
The secret of success in life, is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. -Disraeli

 
Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement–these are the martial virtues which must command success. -Austin Phelps

 
When heaven half opens its arms, he who is faint-hearted deserves not anything. It is this want of faith that often keeps heaven from bestowing its blessings; and even when they come down, it is apt to send them away. -Corneille

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor. -E.H. Chapin

 
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. -Jeremy Collier

Which of these jump out at you?  Which of these opportunity quotes will you write down on a stickie note and post in front of you?

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