Explore Quotes on Opportunity

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Know thy opportunity.

Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again - your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined.

Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique.

Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.

They say football is America's greatest game, but it's not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a great expression of it.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

It's human nature to be timid in the face of obstacles, but I have learned to believe that challenges are opportunities for genius to shine. In order to feel alive, we have to accomplish things that we once believed we could not.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

If you want to succeed in the world 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 roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Don't waste the opportunity.

Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.

Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities.

I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.