Opportunity
“People will try to tell you that all of the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours.” ~ Ken Hakuta
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ~ Helen Keller
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” ~ Sir Francis Bacon
“Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity.” ~ Warren Bennis
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.” ~ Sheryl Sandberg
“One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.” ~ Dr. Ken Robinson
“Start before you’re ready.” ~ Steven Pressfield
“Challenges are gifts, opportunities to learn.” ~ Andy Andrews (The Traveler’s Gift)
“One way to kill an opportunity is to avoid taking it.” ~ Jack Canfield
“Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
“I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
“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 and turned it into an opportunity.” ~ Joseph Sugarman
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~ Milton Berle
“Maybe who we are isn’t so much about what we do, but rather what we’re capable of when we least expect it.” ~ Jodi Picoult
“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.” ~ Ovid
“Before you begin climbing that ladder of success, make sure it’s leaning towards the window of opportunity you desire!” ~ Tracy Brinkmann