Quotes About Opportunity

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

— Duke Ellington

There is only one genuine misfortune: not to be born.

— Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

— Henry J. Kaiser

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

— Helen Keller

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

— Mark Twain

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

— Horace

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

— Benjamin Disraeli

It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.

— Robert Mallet

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

— Hippocrates

A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.

— Ecclesiastes 8:15

Where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Bad times have a scientific value...We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson