Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832; British Sportsman Writer
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965; British Statesman, Prime Minister
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. ; Author of “Lifes Little Instruction Book” Series.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers, 1918- ; American Advice Columnist
Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction.
Unknown
If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.
Les Brown, 1945- ; American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer.
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.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin; 1814-1880, Author & Clergyman.
As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
Robert Collier, American Writer, Publisher
Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.
Russel H. Conwell, 1843-1925; American Lawyer, Baptist Minister, Lecturer
If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
John B. Gough, 1817-1886; British-born American Temperance Orator
Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Lee Iacocca, 1924- ; Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in 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; 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Earl Nightingale, 1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker
One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
David Rockerfeller, American Businessman, Financier
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
Samuel Smiles, 1812-1904, Scottish Author
Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.
Grace Speare
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is ''man'' himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.
Edward Steichen, 1879-1973; Luxembourg Photographer
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
Margaret Thatcher, 1925-; British Stateswoman, Prime Minister (1979-90).
A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.
Source Unknown
Opportunities comes from knocking on doors until they open.
Source Unknown
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
Source Unknown
To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.
Source Unknown
Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.
John Wicker
