Top 40 Opportunity Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Sun Tzu

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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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

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Tony Robbins

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

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Michael Jordan

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Greg Plitt

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

— Bruce Lee

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

— Demi Lovato

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

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

— Greg Plitt

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

— Jim Rohn

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

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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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

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

— Rhonda Byrne

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

— Mwai Kibaki

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21. “Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

22. “Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.”

— Denis Waitley

23. “Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.”

— Jim Rohn

24. “Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.”

— Michael Jordan

25. “Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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26. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

— Kobe Bryant

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27. “All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.”

— John F. Kennedy

28. “Opportunities are problems in search of solutions.”

— Denis Waitley

29. “Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.”

— Voltaire

30. “The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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31. “Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

32. “No matter what may be happening today, God has good things in store for your future! It may not be easy to see now, but God has already lined up a new beginning, new friendships and new opportunities for you.”

— Joel Osteen

33. “Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.”

— Bruce Lee

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34. “Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.”

— Og Mandino

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35. “The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life.”

— Jim Rohn

36. “Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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37. “Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.”

— Jay Samit

38. “I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.”

— Ram Dass

39. “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; – it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

— Jane Austen

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40. “If your parents are alive, be grateful at the opportunity to earn Jannah by serving them.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

41. “Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.”

— Charlie Munger

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42. “What you have to learn is to fold early when the odds are against you, or if you have a big edge, back it heavily because you don’t get a big edge often. Opportunity comes, but it doesn’t come often, so seize it when it does come.”

— Charlie Munger

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