Create Your Own Opportunities Quotes
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“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.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
“No great man ever complains of want of 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.”
“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.”
“Initiative is what opens the door to opportunity.”
“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.”
“Many people believe things happen for a reason, well I say go out and make those things happen.”
“Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it.”
“If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.”
“Replace the word 'problem' with the word 'opportunity' in all your thoughts.”
“I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.”
“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.”
“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.”
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
“Creativity takes courage.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
“Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.”
“Good luck is the result of hard work and preparation.”
“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.”
“It's better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life.”
“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”
“The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.”
“Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.”
“I could either watch it happen or be a part of it”
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.”
“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.”
“Hope is not a strategy.”
“I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.”
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
“Do not wait for opportunity. Create it.”
“Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”
“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.”
“Life is 'trying things to see if they work'.”
