More on opportunity

This past week I presented a teleconference topic on seizing opportunity. As so often happens, something else showed up that coincided with that topic and is perfectly relevant to add here. (If you'd like to join us for upcoming Focus on Results teleconferences (free except for long-distance charges) send me a note to john@johncarroll.com and I'll make sure you get the notice with the details.

Here now are the quotes on opportunity that showed up, thanks to our friend Bob Kelly and his monthly KellyGram. Learn more about Bob at www.wordcrafters.com

Quotes on opportunity:
Look sharply and you will see opportunity; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.
-Francis Bacon

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. -James F. Byrnes

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because, when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -Walter P. Chrysler

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

We are all continually faced with a series of great opportunities, brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. -John W. Gardner

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
-Napoleon Hill

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. -Samuel Johnson

It's when things are going badly that you should build. Why wait for things to pick up, and for everything to cost more? -Ray Kroc

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
-Rosamond Lehmann

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities. -Pogo (Walt Kelly)

The tragedy of many lives is not that our talents are few, but that too frequently we do not use the ones entrusted to us. We pray for bigger opportunities but do not make use of the opportunities that lie in our paths. -Virgil A. Reed

God's best gift to us is not things, but opportunities. -Alice W. Rollins

Do what you're afraid to do. When you run away because you are afraid to do something big, you pass opportunity by. -W. Clement Stone

Opportunists take now for an answer. -Bob Talbert

Opportunities are swarming around us all the time, thicker than gnats at sundown. We walk through a cloud of them. -Henry Van Dyke