Creating Opportunities Quotes

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

The future begins today.

Opportunity does not always knock twice. You have to make some of your own opportunities and you have to go in and grab those.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

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.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.

I did a lot of great things in the past, but I live for today and for the future.

When people say to me: "Oh don't worry, if one door closes another one opens..." If one door closes for me, go through the window - I'm not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.

I have to stay in front to try and create chances and be in the right place in the box.

I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.