Opportunity Quotes

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

Lost time can never be found again

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"

Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare--not only because work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Today is unique! It has never occurred and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities.

Everything in your life right now is a possible episode.

It's not a competition, it's a doorway.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

From that viewpoint, America, free country, democratic country, so more opportunity. Still is more sort of Alive. This is my feeling.

Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity.

Everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending.

Systematic change requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity.

By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people have opportunity, kids have a better education, we're more competitive, climate change is being taken more seriously than it was.Those are going to be the measures by which I look back and say whether I've been successful as president.

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.

When one doors closes, another door opens.

It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

The person who is motivated by necessity is interested in what's known and what's secure. The person who is motivated by possibility is equally interested in what's not known. He wants to know what can evolve, what opportunities might develop.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.

He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.

Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

When you look at the possibilities instead of the problems, the future is filled with endless opportunities

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

You miss the ball you do not hit 100%

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

When asked to give a speech never turn it down. It is a chance to develop you and to give new insight to others

Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.

The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when lifeseems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.

Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do is go to the library.But guess what?Only three percent of the people in America have a library card.Wow,they must be expensive!No, they're free.Probably in every neighborhood.Three percent!

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Everything good is on the highway.

Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.

The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

America is another name for opportunity.

The only thing we can control is what we do in the present. The more we replay yesterday, the further we get from today's opportunities. And the further away we move from opportunities, the tougher the road is to get back. Opportunities never look as good coming as they do going, and they wait for no one. We need to be highly attentive to spot them. And we must be focused on our present capabilities, not past regrets.

There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.

What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.

Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.