3,788 Quotes About Opportunity

Not knowing when the dawn will comeI open every door.

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

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.

Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!