Get aggressive and go after opportunities. Otherwise, they may not find you. The reason some people don’t go very far in life is because they sidestep opportunity and shake hands with procrastination. Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. When opportunity knocks at your front door, don’t be caught out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. For the tenacious person there is always time and opportunity.
Watch for big problems; they disguise big opportunities. Opposition, distraction, and challenges always surround the birth of a dream. So make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. Adversity is fertile soil for creativity.
To the alert Christian, interruptions are divinely inserted opportunities. If you’re looking for a big opportunity, look for a big problem. Turn the tables on adversity. Adversity has advantages.
Life’s disappointments are opportunity’s hidden appointments. When God is going to do something wonderful, He begins with difficulty; when He’s going to do something very wonderful, He begins with impossibility!
Francis Bacon said, “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” It’s more valuable to find a situation that redistributes opportunity than one that redistributes wealth. Have you ever noticed that great people are never lacking for opportunities? When highly successful people are interviewed, they always mention their big plans for the future. Most of us would think, “If I were in their shoes, I’d kick back and do nothing.” Success doesn’t diminish their dreams. They’ve always been that way, even before they were great.
There’s far more opportunity than ability. Life’s full of golden opportunities for doing what we’re called to do. Start with what you can do; don’t stop because of what you can’t do. In the orchard of opportunity, it is better to pick the fruit than to wait for it to fall in your lap.
Greater opportunities and joy come to those who make the most of small opportunities. In the parable of the talents the master told the servant who used what he had, “Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord” (Matt. 25:23).
Many people seem to think opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it. God’s best gifts to us are not things but opportunities. And those doors of opportunity are marked “Push.”
Opportunity is all around you.