★Opportunity Quotes

We often need a little spark to our spirits when it comes to areas affecting the economy.

Let’s use this thread to isolate ourself from the negative issues of the world, and make our own worlds thrive, and hopefully it will rub off on others ‘out there’.

This thread is devoted to quotations re:opportunity.
Here’s my 1st one:
“An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap
metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An
enterprising person is one who drives through an old,
decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.”
— Jim Rohn

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.” Sarah Caldwell

ALBERT EINSTEIN: In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

HELEN KELLER:
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.

WINSTON CHURCHILL:
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR:
There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

DEMOSTHENES:
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

BARACK OBAMA:
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

C. WRIGHT MILLS:
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them — and then, the opportunity to choose.

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI:
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun.

JAMES F. BYMES:
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death

HUGH MILLER:
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

IRVING KRISTOL:
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.:
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream — a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man’s skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.

MAY SARTON:
… without darkness
Nothing comes to birth,
As without light
Nothing flowers.

OVID:
Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

THOMAS ALVA EDISON:
Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.