Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

It looks like I've been smart about it, but truly, I've been incredibly lucky to have the right people notice me and want to work with me.

I got a lot of opportunities and I was able to make the best of them.

All I did was make the best of the opportunity that I got in 'Company.'

Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.

Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.

You see people who get so many big opportunities, and they take them, and they're not ready.

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

Luck always plays a part for everyone, whether they want to admit it or not. I was very lucky, and I know it.

I have to tell you that it's not going to be easy. Take every chance and every opportunity that you can. Don't say 'I can't' or 'I shouldn't' or 'I'm too tired.'

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Choose action, not rest. Choose the good in life in all things, and choose the opportunity as well as the chance to work when springtime smiles on your face.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

I was always in the right place at the right time, always willing to take advantage of an opportunity.

I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.

Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.