Opportunity Quotes

When one door closes another door opens; but we 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

 

The secret of success in life, is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. -Disraeli

 

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.  The great opportunity is where you are.  -John Burroughs

 

Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement--these are the martial virtues which must command success. -Austin Phelps

 

When heaven half opens its arms, he who is faint-hearted deserves not anything. It is this want of faith that often keeps heaven from bestowing its blessings; and even when they come down, it is apt to send them away. -Corneille

 

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor. -E.H. Chapin

 

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -Bacon

 

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. -Jeremy Collier

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