Opportunity Quotes

Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.

Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Opportunity is in the person, not the job.

If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

Look, I'm an immigrant, so I know what it is like to dream about coming to America and then to get here and be able to make your dreams a reality, ... Of course, there are millions of people who want to come here. Let's help them, let's find a legal way t

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

More often than not, when something looks like it's the absolute end, it is really the beginning.

Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,And marching single in an endless file,Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;To each they offer gifts after his will,Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;I, in my pleached garden watched the pompForgot my morning wishes, hastilyTook a few herbs and apples, and the DayTurned and departed silent. I too lateUnder her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

As I got older, then my particular ambitions started cohering around creating a world in which people of different races or backgrounds or faiths can recognize each other's humanity, or creating a world in which every kid, regardless of their background, can strive and achieve and fulfill their potential.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

The key that unlocks a door is a key to keep if you want to go through that door again.

Courage mounteth with occasion.

Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.

"Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time.

The early morning has gold in its mouth.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life.

when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.

Every problem comes with an equal or greater opportunity

Behind every adversity - is an opportunity!

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.

The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in.

Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

Lets take full advantage of this discovery

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream.

I'm just naturally gravitating towards different things. As you mature, different subject matters. And as you're older, you can't play as many parts, or you shouldn't be playing the parts that you used to play. But also there's the opportunity to play parts that you couldn't have.

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.

Welcome all experiences. You never know which one is gong to turn everything on.

ALEC has forged a unique partnership between state legislators and leaders from the corporate and business community. This partnership offers businessmen the extraordinary opportunity to apply their talents to solve America's problems and build on our opportunities.

To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.

Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Love hard when there is love to be had.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.