Top 200 Opportunity Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Victory Quotes

2. “Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Also featured in: Quotes About Waiting

3. “Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.”

— John Adams

4. “In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Work Quotes

5. “Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work

6. “Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Prosperity Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Empowering Quotes

7. “Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It’s your move.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Empowering Quotes

8. “Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Innovation Quotes

9. “Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Doubt Quotes

10. “Life is the sum of your choices.”

— Albert Camus

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Choices Quotes, Smart Quotes

11. “Opportunities Don’t Come Knocking On The Door. They Present Themselves When You Knock The Door Down!”

— Greg Plitt

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Fitness Quotes, Determination Quotes

12. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Short Inspirational Quotes

13. “Every day is a new opportunity to change your life and be who you want to be.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Choices Quotes

14. “If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way. Don’t wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Live Life Quotes, Empowering Quotes

15. “Second by second you lose the opportunity to become the person you want to be. Take charge of your life.”

— Greg Plitt

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Impact Quotes, Choices Quotes, Commitment Quotes

16. “Personal development – the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Short Inspiring Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

17. “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes About Life, Meaningful Quotes, Choices Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

18. “Life is a gift from God, an unlimited series of opportunities to find the good in ourselves and others. There is good in everything, if we are willing to see it.”

— Alan Cohen

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Kindness Quotes, Purpose Quotes

19. “Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel.”

— Rhonda Byrne

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Optimistic Quotes

20. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

— George Eliot

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Short Positive Quotes

21. “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!”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Action Quotes

22. “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

— Francis Bacon

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Uplifting Quotes

23. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”

— Jack Canfield

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Courage Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Failure Quotes

24. “Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Leadership Quotes, Business Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women

25. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Courage Quotes, Empowerment Quotes

26. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

27. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Prosperity Quotes

28. “If you risk nothing, you gain nothing.”

— Bear Grylls

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Winning Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

29. “Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”

— Mwai Kibaki

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Impact Quotes, Smart Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

30. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Preparation Quotes

31. “Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Study Quotes, Positive Life Quotes

32. “The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Monday Motivation Quotes, Thursday Motivational Quotes

33. “Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

— William Arthur Ward

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Smart Quotes, Good Morning Quotes

34. “Seize every opportunity that life offers you because, when opportunities go, they take a long time to come back.”

— Paulo Coelho

35. “Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.”

— Michelle Obama

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Empowering Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

36. “I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.”

— Richard Branson

37. “The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Performance Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

38. “I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”

— Madam C. J. Walker

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Hustle Quotes

39. “Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Change Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes

40. “Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.”

— Mark Cuban

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Success Quotes, Action Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes

41. “I Have a Dream”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Goal Quotes, Change Quotes

42. “Don’t be afraid of new arenas.”

— Elon Musk

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes

43. “Whatever you focus on is what you get.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Goal Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Positivity Quotes

44. “If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.”

— Nora Roberts

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Personality Quotes

45. “Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?”

— Eminem

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Music Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Quotes About Life

46. “You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

47. “Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.”

— Nolan Bushnell

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Action Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

48. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Optimistic Quotes

49. “Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.”

— Stephen Richards

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Action Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Growth Quotes

50. “Opportunists seek for a chance. Entrepreneurs make new chances.”

— Toba Beta

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes