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24 Killer Quotes About Seizing Opportunity

  • November 10, 2020

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Many times opportunities are hidden in plain sight. As we follow the obvious paths we’re presented, we can blind ourselves to the alternatives⁠—especially when all those around us are approaching life in similar ways. Sometimes, a new vantage point or a new way of looking at the world is all it takes to uncover new opportunities. These quotes can act as reminders of this.

Blake Miner

Blake Miner

Blake is a traveling social scientist (MSocSc) and entrepreneur who writes about the psychology of personal freedom, travel, and location independent business. He's the founder of Flâneur Life, an internet home for free range humans.
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“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

Seneca

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”

Albert Einstein

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

Bruce Lee

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

Francis Bacon

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

William Arthur Ward

“Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.”

Emily Dickinson

“Every wall is a door.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small.”

Richard Branson

“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

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

Thomas A. Edison

“One way to kill an opportunity is to avoid taking it.”

Jack Canfield

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

Napoleon Hill

“Opportunities are often things you haven’t noticed the first time around.”

Catherine Deneuve

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.”

Og Mandino

“One has, you know, a window of opportunity somewhere between zip and a hundred to solve, or understand, or penetrate, or appreciate, or come to terms with the conundrum of being, this amazing circumstance in which we find ourselves, both individually and collectively.”

Terence McKenna

“Teachers open the doors, but you must enter by yourself.” 

Chinese Proverb

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

Victor Kiam

“Opportunities? They are all around us…There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.”

Orison Swett Marden

“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”

Paulo Coelho

“It’s through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path.”

Michael Dell

“Chance favors the prepared mind.”

Louis Pasteur

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

Winston Churchill

“You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.”

Bob Dylan

What’s your favorite quote about seizing opportunity? Have any others you’d add to the collection? Let me know in the comments below!

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