Opportunity Quotes

The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success.

One man’s opportunism is another man’s statesmanship.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

When one door is shut, another opens.

The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.