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OPPORTUNITIES : Because you are alive, everything is possible (Thich Nhat Hanh: Vietnamese-American Buddhist spiritual leader and peace activist, prolific author, poet, and teacher who was known as the 'Father of Mindfulness' and was a major influence on western practices of Buddhism, 1926-2022)

OPPORTUNITIES : Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. (Samuel Lover: Irish songwriter, composer, novelist, and a painter of portraits, 1797-1868)

OPPORTUNITIES : Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. (Robert Southey: English poet of the Romantic school and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years, 1774-1843)

OPPORTUNITIES : Delay not to seize the hour! (Aeschylus: Ancient Greek tragedian who is often described as the ‘Father of Tragedy,' 525—456 B.C.E.)

OPPORTUNITIES : Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door. (Nicolas de Chamfort: French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms, 1741-1794)

OPPORTUNITIES : Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. (Aldous Huxley: English writer and philosopher who wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—and was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time, 1894-1963)

OPPORTUNITIES : Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity (Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb: Arabic caliph, Muslim jurist, and father-in-law of the islamic prophet, Muhammad, c. 583 or 584 C.E. - 644 C.E.)

OPPORTUNITIES : Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans. (Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.: U.S. film producer, 1926-2015)

OPPORTUNITIES : How many opportunities present themselves to a man without his noticing them? (Arabic Proverb: )

OPPORTUNITIES : If a door slams shut it means that God is pointing to an open door further on down. (Anna D. Peale: U.S. author and mother of Rev. Norman Peale, author of pioneering self-help book, 1874-1939)

OPPORTUNITIES : If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. (Rosalynn Carter: U.S. activist who served as First Lady of the United States as the wife of President Jimmy Carter, Born 1927)

OPPORTUNITIES : Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695)

OPPORTUNITIES : Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them. (Czechoslovakian Proverb: )

OPPORTUNITIES : Mistakes are the portals for discovery. (James Joyce: Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic, 1882-1941)

OPPORTUNITIES : Money won’t create success; the freedom to make it will. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

OPPORTUNITIES : Never let a good crisis go to waste. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

OPPORTUNITIES : Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. (Fred Rogers: U.S. television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, and minister, 1928-1993)

OPPORTUNITIES : Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. (Dag Hammarskjold: Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, 1905-1961)

OPPORTUNITIES : Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around. (Catherine Deneuve: French actress, known as one of the greatest European actresses on film, born 1943)

OPPORTUNITIES : Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. (Ann Landers: U.S. syndicated advice-columnist whose work was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America and led to her becoming a cultural icon, 1918-2002)

OPPORTUNITIES : Our opportunities to do good are our talents. (Cotton Mather: Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, 1663-1728)

OPPORTUNITIES : Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. (Demosthenes: Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens 384 B.C.E.--322 B.C.E.)

OPPORTUNITIES : The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. (Flora Whittemore: U.S. musician, poet, music therapist, and health care advocate, 1986-2024)

OPPORTUNITIES : There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. (Graham Greene: English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century, 1904-1991)

OPPORTUNITIES : Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown. (Thomas A. Woodlock: U.S. editor of the 'Wall Street Journal' and a member of the United States Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), 1866-1945)

OPPORTUNITIES : Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones. (Unknown Source: )

OPPORTUNITIES : We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity. (Walter E. Cole: U.S. drag queen, entertainer, cabaret owner and operator in Portland, Oregon, 1930-2023)

OPPORTUNITIES : When opportunity knocks, some people are in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. (Polish Proverb: )

OPPORTUNITIES : You create your opportunities by asking for them. (Patty Hansen: U.S. model and actress, Born 1956)

OPPORTUNITIES : You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. (English proverb: )

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