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Opportunity Quotes

    “If you’re looking for a big opportunity, seek out a big problem.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, via The Way of the Seal

      “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” ~ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

        “When opportunity comes, it’s too late to prepare.” ~ John Wooden

          “You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‘Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.” ~ Joel Osteen

            “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

                "Opportunity does not knock. It presents itself when you beat down the door!" ~ Kyle Chandler

                  “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, The Element

                          “Start before you’re ready.” ~ Steven Pressfield

                              “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