Create Your Own Opportunities Quotes
Waiting for opportunity is a strategy for spectators. The man who builds his own door never stands in line to knock on someone else's. This Vision path holds the greatest quotes ever gathered on creating your own luck. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.”
“People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.”
“Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.”
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”
“Hope is not a strategy.”
“If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.”
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”
“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”
“The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
“Replace the word 'problem' with the word 'opportunity' in all your thoughts.”
“Life is 'trying things to see if they work'.”
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
“Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.”
“Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
“Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“Around here we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
“If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.”
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.”
“Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it.”
“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.”
“Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”
“Creativity takes courage.”
“You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.”
“Good luck is the result of hard work and preparation.”
“Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.”
“It's better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life.”
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
“Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”
“There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.”
“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.”
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
“Initiative is what opens the door to opportunity.”
