It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.

Opportunity doesn’t come often, so seize it when it does. Opportunity meeting the prepared mind — that’s the game.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance. You yourself, either now or in the past (including the past of former lives), have created all opportunities that arise in your path. Since you have earned them, use them to the best advantage.

Opportunity is always under our feet. We don't have to go anywhere. All we need to do is recognize it. When people don't know how to recognize opportunity, they complain of noise when it knocks. The same opportunity never knocks twice. The next one may be better or worse, but it is never the same one.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and
try again in a different way.

Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.

Opportunity is in the eye of the beholder.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.