opportunity

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

—Sun Tzu

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

—Sun Tzu

If you die in your sins, there is not in the Bible one ray of hope to show that there will be opportunity to repent hereafter. Now is the accepted time of salvation.

—D. L. Moody

We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.

—Thomas Edison

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

—Sun Tzu

I should do wrong to sacrifice an opportunity of usefulness which is within my reach, in order to qualify myself for a station I am not likely ever to fill.

—William Wilberforce

No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.

—Charles Dickens

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

—Henry David Thoreau

When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.

—Søren Kierkegaard

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

—Thomas Edison

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.

—Seneca

The wise Christian will watch for opportunities to do good, to speak the life-bringing word to sinners, to pray the rescuing prayer of intercession.

—AW Tozer

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

—Albert Einstein

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

—Sun Tzu

Ye who now give the reins to your carnal opportunities. The present state that you are ready to imagine to be, all will soon pass away, and there are vast alterations coming. That are at hand, even at the door.

—Jonathan Edwards

Ye who now give the reins to your carnal opportunities. The present state that you are ready to imagine to be, all will soon pass away, and there are vast alterations coming. That are at hand, even at the door.

—Jonathan Edwards

Good opportunities don’t show up everyday — when they do, act on them right away.

—Peter R. Rose