One of the reasons why people are not doing so well is that they're not sensitive enough to observe what is happening around them. If you do not pay attention to these events, even though every day is a new opportunity, you can easily miss those moments. May these quotes regarding opportunity make you more observant and prepared to grab the opportunity that comes your way.
1. “Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
2. “Opportunities are presented to us each and every day, but do we see them. To see an opportunity we must be open to all thoughts.” – Catherine Pulsifer
3. “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu
4. “Our lives are defined by opportunities. Even the ones we miss.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. “When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
6. “Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.” – Cameron Diaz
7. “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
8. “Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.” – Peter Drucker
9. “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.” – John D. Rockefeller
10. “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” – Demosthenes
11. “Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity.” – Michael Johnson
12. “Opportunities are like sunrises, if you wait too long, you miss them.” – William Arthur Ward
13. “Be a magnet that draws opportunity. Paint brilliant thoughts and actions. Mirror success.” – Shawn L. Anderson
14. “Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.” – Bono
15. “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” – Sun Tzu
16. “Jump at opportunities to take on responsibilities. People should try new things, that's how to grow.” – Kevin Murray
17. “He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed.” – William James
18. “Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.” – Jim Carrey
19. “Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.” – Bruce Barton
20. “What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.” – J. Sidlow Baxter
21. “Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.” – Stephen Covey
22. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” – Peter Drucker
23. “Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.” – Ovid
24. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
25. “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a bigger door.” – Milton Berle
26. “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. “Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Everyone must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.” – Maltbie Davenport Babcock
28. “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
29. “Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.” – Julie Andrews
30. “The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand
More Quotes about Opportunity
31. “Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.” – Mario Andretti
32. “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” – Henry J. Kaiser
33. “At various points in your careers, you will be called to take a risk. And I think you will find, as I have found, those will be the times of your greatest opportunities.” – Raymond V. Gilmartin
34. “Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.” – Tom Barrett
35. “Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.” – Emily Dickinson
36. “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.” – John Burroughs
37. “Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.” – Ramsey Clark
38. “I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?” – Omar Epps
39. “Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities.” – Roy T. Bennett
40. “Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.” – Nolan Ryan
41. “One opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.” – Markus Zusak
42. “Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.” – Mario Cuomo
43. “If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes, then learn how to do it later.” – Richard Branson
44. “It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path.” – Michael Dell
45. “If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.” – Tom Peters
46. “Your big opportunity may be where you are right now.” – Napoleon Hill
47. “Change the happenings in your life from obligatory tasks to opportunities for which you are grateful.” – Kathryn Prentice
48. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” – Ann Landers
49. “We will never be able to recognize opportunities if we first don't recognize all that we have and all that we've been given.” – Joel Osteen
50. “Excuses will always be there for you. Opportunity won’t.” – Anonymous
51. “Once you have come to a realization of your own limits will find that your life can be full of mind-blowing opportunities.” – Sam Rivers
52. “Opportunity is everywhere. The key is to develop the vision to see it.” – Anonymous
53. “Over the years, I've come to view complaints as opportunities rather than obstacles.” – Guy Winch
54. “There are two benefits of failures, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work, and second the failure gives you an opportunity to try a new approach.” – Destiny Madu
55. “Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” – Harry S. Truman
56. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” – Bruce Lee
57. “Opportunities and success are not something you go after necessarily but something you attract by becoming an attractive person.” – Jim Rohn
58. “Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.” – Christine Gregoire
59. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
60. “The bigger the challenge, the bigger the opportunity.” – Anonymous
61. “Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.” – Og Mandino
62. “Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.” – Sun Tzu
63. “Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.” – Orison Swett Marden
64. “Pressure, challenges, they are all an opportunity for me to rise.” – Kobe Bryant
65. “Confidence unlocks every opportunity in life.” – Anonymous
66. “Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.” – William Arthur Ward
67. “Most do not understand the wonderful opportunities life gives until they look back at their life.” – Eric Handler
68. “The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.” – Brian Tracy
69. “To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.” – Benjamin Franklin
70. “Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity.” – Joseph Sugarman
71. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
72. “Once you put everything in the right perspective, even bad times can be an opportunity to refresh your appetite, your desire.” – Alex Zanardi
73. “I think every day is a new day, every day is a new opportunity, and every day is a new chance.” – Jennifer Winget
74. “Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.” – David Rockwell
75. “You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up.” – Dominic West
76. “The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” – John Burroughs
77. “Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
78. “When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.” – Roy T. Bennett
79. “Ability is nothing without opportunity.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
80. “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.” – Winston Churchill
81. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas A. Edison
82. “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” – Bobby Unser
83. “Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” – Kyle Chandler
84. “Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It’s your move.” – Tony Robbins
85. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
86. “Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it.” – George Bernard Shaw
87. “Everything negative, pressure, and challenges is all an opportunity for me to rise.” – Kobe Bryant
88. “Most people miss great opportunities because of their misperception of time. Don’t wait! The time will never be just right.” – Stephen C. Hogan
89. “Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.” – Victor Kiam
90. “When opportunity presents itself, don’t be afraid to go after it.” – Eddie Kennison
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2. “Opportunities are presented to us each and every day, but do we see them. To see an opportunity we must be open to all thoughts.” – Catherine Pulsifer
3. “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu
4. “Our lives are defined by opportunities. Even the ones we miss.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. “When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
6. “Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.” – Cameron Diaz
7. “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
8. “Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.” – Peter Drucker
9. “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.” – John D. Rockefeller
11. “Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity.” – Michael Johnson
12. “Opportunities are like sunrises, if you wait too long, you miss them.” – William Arthur Ward
13. “Be a magnet that draws opportunity. Paint brilliant thoughts and actions. Mirror success.” – Shawn L. Anderson
14. “Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.” – Bono
16. “Jump at opportunities to take on responsibilities. People should try new things, that's how to grow.” – Kevin Murray
17. “He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed.” – William James
18. “Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.” – Jim Carrey
19. “Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.” – Bruce Barton
21. “Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.” – Stephen Covey
22. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” – Peter Drucker
23. “Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.” – Ovid
24. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
26. “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
27. “Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Everyone must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.” – Maltbie Davenport Babcock
28. “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
29. “Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.” – Julie Andrews
30. “The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand
More Quotes about Opportunity
31. “Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.” – Mario Andretti
32. “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” – Henry J. Kaiser
33. “At various points in your careers, you will be called to take a risk. And I think you will find, as I have found, those will be the times of your greatest opportunities.” – Raymond V. Gilmartin
34. “Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.” – Tom Barrett
35. “Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.” – Emily Dickinson
36. “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.” – John Burroughs
37. “Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.” – Ramsey Clark
38. “I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?” – Omar Epps
39. “Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities.” – Roy T. Bennett
40. “Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.” – Nolan Ryan
41. “One opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.” – Markus Zusak
42. “Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.” – Mario Cuomo
43. “If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes, then learn how to do it later.” – Richard Branson
44. “It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path.” – Michael Dell
45. “If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.” – Tom Peters
46. “Your big opportunity may be where you are right now.” – Napoleon Hill
47. “Change the happenings in your life from obligatory tasks to opportunities for which you are grateful.” – Kathryn Prentice
48. “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” – Ann Landers
49. “We will never be able to recognize opportunities if we first don't recognize all that we have and all that we've been given.” – Joel Osteen
50. “Excuses will always be there for you. Opportunity won’t.” – Anonymous
51. “Once you have come to a realization of your own limits will find that your life can be full of mind-blowing opportunities.” – Sam Rivers
52. “Opportunity is everywhere. The key is to develop the vision to see it.” – Anonymous
53. “Over the years, I've come to view complaints as opportunities rather than obstacles.” – Guy Winch
54. “There are two benefits of failures, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work, and second the failure gives you an opportunity to try a new approach.” – Destiny Madu
55. “Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” – Harry S. Truman
56. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” – Bruce Lee
57. “Opportunities and success are not something you go after necessarily but something you attract by becoming an attractive person.” – Jim Rohn
58. “Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.” – Christine Gregoire
59. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
60. “The bigger the challenge, the bigger the opportunity.” – Anonymous
61. “Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.” – Og Mandino
62. “Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.” – Sun Tzu
63. “Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.” – Orison Swett Marden
64. “Pressure, challenges, they are all an opportunity for me to rise.” – Kobe Bryant
65. “Confidence unlocks every opportunity in life.” – Anonymous
66. “Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.” – William Arthur Ward
67. “Most do not understand the wonderful opportunities life gives until they look back at their life.” – Eric Handler
68. “The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.” – Brian Tracy
69. “To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.” – Benjamin Franklin
70. “Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity.” – Joseph Sugarman
71. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
72. “Once you put everything in the right perspective, even bad times can be an opportunity to refresh your appetite, your desire.” – Alex Zanardi
73. “I think every day is a new day, every day is a new opportunity, and every day is a new chance.” – Jennifer Winget
74. “Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.” – David Rockwell
75. “You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up.” – Dominic West
76. “The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” – John Burroughs
77. “Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
78. “When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.” – Roy T. Bennett
79. “Ability is nothing without opportunity.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
80. “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.” – Winston Churchill
81. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas A. Edison
82. “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” – Bobby Unser
83. “Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” – Kyle Chandler
84. “Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It’s your move.” – Tony Robbins
85. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
86. “Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it.” – George Bernard Shaw
87. “Everything negative, pressure, and challenges is all an opportunity for me to rise.” – Kobe Bryant
88. “Most people miss great opportunities because of their misperception of time. Don’t wait! The time will never be just right.” – Stephen C. Hogan
89. “Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.” – Victor Kiam
90. “When opportunity presents itself, don’t be afraid to go after it.” – Eddie Kennison
Share these Life Changing Opportunity Quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.