Create Your Own Opportunities Quotes

“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.”

“Life is 'trying things to see if they work'.”

“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”

“It's better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life.”

“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.”

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

“Creativity takes courage.”

“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.”

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

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.”

“Replace the word 'problem' with the word 'opportunity' in all your thoughts.”

“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.”

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”

“Initiative is what opens the door to opportunity.”

“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.”

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

“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.”

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

“Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”

“If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.”

“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.”

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

“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.”

“Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”

“Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

“Hope is not a strategy.”

“Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it.”

“Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Good luck is the result of hard work and preparation.”

“Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.”

“Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.”

“The common question that gets asked in business is, ”why?” That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ”why not?””

“Circumstances—what are circumstances? I make circumstances”

“When starting out, don’t worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.”

“Forward thinkers don’t copy. They don’t compete – they create.”

“When you make a choice, you change the future.”

“I like things to happen, and if they don’t happen I like to make them happen.”

“What we call luck is often not purely random, but rather the delayed byproduct of consistently putting yourself in good positions.”

“Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.”

“People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.”

“There are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, and try to put yourself in a position where if luck strikes, you can see the opportunity and take advantage of it.”

“Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.”