quotations about opportunity
O Opportunity! thy guilt is great:
'Tis thou that execut'st the traitor's treason!
Thou set'st the wolf where he the lamb may get;
Whoever plots the sin, thou 'point'st the season;
'Tis thou that spurn'st at right, at law, at reason;
And in thy shady cell, where none may spy him,
Sits Sin, to seize the souls that wander by him.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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The Rape of Lucrece
Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.
GEORGE ADE
"The Undecided Bachelor", Knocking the Neighbors
Did Mr. Woolworth, who created a chain of more than one thousand five and ten cent stores, wait on opportunity? Did Thomas A. Edison and thousands of men and women who have achieved big things wait on opportunity? Decidedly not! They either created their own opportunity or prepared themselves to receive it when it presented itself.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Opportunity", Human Life from Many Angles
Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.
T. JONES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Fools wait for opportunities in order to do everything; able men wait only for such chances as they themselves are unable to create.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
attributed, Day's Collacon
Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.
JAMES GEARY
Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
Opportunity is one of those things that depend greatly on the eye of the beholder.
ANDREW SANCHEZ
Technical Support Essentials
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Architects of Fate
Master of human destinies am I!
Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait,
Cities and fields I walk: I penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late
I knock unbidden once at every gate!
If sleeping, wake: if feasting, rise before
I turn away. It is the hour of fate
And they who follow me reach every state
Mortals desire and conquer every foe
Save death: but those who doubt or hesitate,
Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
Seek me in vain and uselessly implore--
I answer not, and I return no more!
JOHN J. INGALLS
"Opportunity"
Danger will wink on opportunity.
JOHN MILTON
Comus
Opportunity to a statesman is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.
SIR JOHN SUCKLING
attributed, Day's Collacon
Opportunities are importunities; they are like flowers that fade at night; seize them, therefore, while they last.
G. S. BOWES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Bad chances were better than no chances.
STEPHEN KING
Under the Dome
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE
Meditations for Women
Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected.
JOHN WICKER
Into Tomorrow
An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.
WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE
Vocations
Opportunity is often dressed up in work clothes.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
Many people are waiting for opportunity to knock at the door, but when it does knock they are seldom ready to take advantage of it. No man or woman need wait on opportunity. We all have the innate potential power to create our own opportunities.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Opportunity", Human Life from Many Angles