Top 200 Opportunity Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do.”

— Brian Tracy

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

— Kobe Bryant

103. “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

104. “This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?”

— Zig Ziglar

105. “First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”

— Napoleon Hill

106. “If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.”

— Jeff Bezos

107. “Failure cannot cope with persistence.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Denis Waitley

110. “Things turn out best for those who make best of how things turn out.”

— John Wooden

111. “Today is a new day, so rise up and move forward into the victory God has prepared for you!”

— Joel Osteen

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

— Voltaire

113. “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

— Henry David Thoreau

114. “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

— William Shakespeare

115. “As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.”

— Casey Neistat

116. “If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn’t have an opportunity.”

— Bob Parsons

117. “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

118. “A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better.”

— Richard Branson

119. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”

— Seth Godin

120. “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

121. “We always have a choice.”

— Tony Robbins

122. “It’s my life and it’s now or never.”

— Jon Bon Jovi

123. “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

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

— Bruce Lee

125. “Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no”

— Richard Branson

126. “Don’t pass up something that’s attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.”

— Warren Buffett

127. “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

128. “Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.”

— Abdul Kalam

129. “A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.”

— Zig Ziglar

130. “Change brings opportunity.”

— Nido R. Qubein

131. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

— Thomas A. Edison

132. “How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”

— Seth Godin

133. “Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.”

— Zig Ziglar

134. “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

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

— Jay Samit

136. “Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.”

— Casey Neistat

137. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

— Matthew 7:7

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

— Henry David Thoreau

139. “Start before you’re ready.”

— Steven Pressfield

140. “Pour your heart and soul into your business. People will notice.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Ram Dass

142. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

— John Wooden

143. “Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ”

— John Wooden

144. “The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.”

— Ryan Holiday

145. “All of our dreams can come true.”

— Walt Disney

146. “To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it.”

— Catherine Cook

147. “Your network is your net worth.”

— Porter Gale

148. “There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.”

— Jim Valvano

149. “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

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

— Nouman Ali Khan