Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old opportunity quotes, opportunity sayings, and opportunity proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.John Dryden
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There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.William Shakespeare
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Never the time and the place / And the loved one altogether.Robert Browning
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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.Boris Johnson
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He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.English Proverb
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He is a good time-server that finds out the fittest opportunity of every action.Thomas Fuller
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While we stop to think, we often miss out opportunity.Publilius Syrus
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The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity.Philarete Chaskes
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The wise will make more opportunities than they find.Sir Francis Bacon
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To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunitiesLa Rochefoucauld
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Every opportunity presents an obligation.John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.Disraeli
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.Samuel Johnson
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.William James
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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 S. Marden
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There are two kinds of opportunities: one which we chance upon, the other which we create. In times of great difficulty, one must not fail to create his opportunity.Takamori Saigo
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I had to make my own living and my own opportunity...Don't sit down and wait for opportunities to come ; you have to get up and make them.Madame C.J. Walker
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For the highest task of intelligence is to grasp and recognize genuine opportunity, possibility.John Dewey
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.Emerson
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Present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.Samuel Johnson
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Opportunities multiply as they are seized.Sun Tzu
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.Ovid
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Take advantage of this human boat; / Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! / This vessel will be later hard to find. / The time that you have now, you fool, / Is not for sleep.Shantideva
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Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them.A.E. Dunning
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When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.Alexander Graham Bell
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Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.Marcus Garvey
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How singular, in the vastness of creation, is the richness of our opportunity.John Cheever
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What we have before us are some breathtaking opportunities disguised as insoluble problems.John William Gardner
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Opportunity does not knock; it presents itself when you beat down the door.Kyle Chandler
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Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.Catherine Deneuve