Recognizing Opportunities Quotes

Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.

Most people never get wealthy simply because they are not trained financially to recognize opportunities right in front of them. The rich have learned to recognize opportunities as well as how to create them

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

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

I think it's important never to look a gift horse in the mouth, never to overlook your talents [and] what you're good at.

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.

Often people think opportunity is a matter of luck. I believe opportunities are all around us. Some seize it. Others stand and let it pass by.

Well, some people create their own opportunities; others go where opportunities are the greatest; others fail to recognize opportunity when they are face to face with it.

It's not a question of getting the opportunities, it's a question of noticing that opportunities are there.

Opportunities don't knock at all. They don't have to, they're already all around us. It's up to us to see where they are and take advantage of them.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.

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

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

God gives you the resources for success. But it is up to you to recognize them and use them to their fullest.

When we live our lives everyday, we're met by opportunities, and most of us don't even recognize them.

Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.