3,788 Quotes About Opportunity

  • Author Clarissa Pinkola Estés
  • Quote

    The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will developing the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid of the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power through fresh insights and opportunities for re-visioning one's life and self anew.

  • Tags
  • Share



  • Author Eknath Easwaran
  • Quote

    Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Elliott Erwitt
  • Quote

    Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Epictetus
  • Quote

    Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Erik Erikson
  • Quote

    The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Epictetus
  • Quote

    Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Eve Ensler
  • Quote

    I literally would go to see Tina Turner any opportunity I had because being in the presence of Tina Turner was like being in the presence of transformative energy, and feminist transformative energy. I remember thinking to myself, whatever this is, it's revolution. Whatever this is, it's change embodied in a woman.

  • Tags
  • Share