Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.--Ovid

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.--Madame C. J. Walker

The door to opportunity is always labeled 'push'.--Anonymous

Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.--Dan Custer

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.--Robert Herrick ("To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" Herperides: or Works both Humane and Divine)

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.--Orison Sweet Marden

A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such "breaks" are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.--Lawrence Downs

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.--John D. Rockefeller

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dropped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know I held opportunity.--Hazel Lee

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.--Samuel Goldwyn

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.--Tom Peters

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.--Edward de Bono (Serious Creativity)

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.--John B. Gough

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work--and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.--Lucille Ball

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they're doing.--Samuel Goldwyn

Out of clutter, find Simplicity
From discord, find Harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.--Albert Einstein (Three Rules of Work)

Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.--Shirley Temple Black (Child Stars)

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.--Eric Hoffer

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.--Ayn

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.--Neil Peart

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.--Thomas Jones

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.--Brian Tracy

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Opportunities are seldom labeled.--John A. Shedd

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.--Anonymous

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.--H. J. Brown, Jr. (A Hero in Every Heart)

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.--William A. Ward

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.--Sir Winston Churchill

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.--Charles Caleb Colton (Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words)

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.--Gloria Estefan

Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes) 

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.--Wayne W. Dyer

There is no security on this Earth; there is only opportunity.--Douglas MacArthur

This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.--Richard M. DeVos 

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.--William James

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.--John Wayne

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death.--James F. Byrnes

Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities.--Eric Hoffer (The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements)

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.--Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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

...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

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.--Francis Bacon

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.--Bil Keane

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.--Roger Maris