Opportunity Quotes
Opportunity Quotes remind us to keep our eyes and ears open. When opportunities knock, be prepared to act. However, don’t wait for great opportunities to find you, look for them and create your own!
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~ Thomas Edison
- “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” ~ Bobby Unser
- “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” ~ Chris Grosser
- “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~ Milton Berle

- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ~Francis Bacon
- In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ~Albert Einstein
- A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them. ~William Ellery Channing
- If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. ~Milton Berle
- When one door closes another opens. Seize the opportunity while the path remains lit.
- I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. ~Mark Twain
- A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ~Winston S. Churchill
- Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. ~ Emily Dickinson
- Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish. ~Lord Stanley
- Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. 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. ~Lao Tzu
- The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity. ~Victor Chasles
- Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. ~William Arthur Ward
- Opportunities are on every hand; what we need is, not a new chance, but clearness of vision to discern the chance which at this very hour is ours, if we recognize it. ~Katherine Krieger
- Who seeks, and will not take, when once ’tis offered, Shall never find it more. ~William Shakespeare
When you need some inspiration to make your own luck, read through opportunity quotes!



