10 Quotes To Encourage You To Seize Your Opportunities

Are you in a period of life where you feel like you're not getting anywhere, you have no real direction for the future, you're perhaps stuck in a rut, or you're basically unhappy, unsatisfied, and unfulfilled with your life? Do you feel like you never seem to be making much, or any, progression toward your goals? It would be fair to say that most of us feel in such a way. Life feels like it's just passing us by, especially when our work is constantly busy, and consuming much of our time. Then there's our family to look after, and other personal commitments to honor, making our whole life seem like there's never any time left over to be doing something for ourselves. Before we know it, life has passed us by, as we head into our senior years with very little achievement, success, and accomplishment, to speak of. We feel like we have wasted our life. By then, what once were our goals and aspirations, have become nothing more than missed opportunities, leaving us with a hollow feeling of regret. So why is this normality for so many people worldwide? Simple! It's a classic case of not having taken opportunities when they were there. We either seem to completely ignore the opportunities presented to us, because we are too wrapped up in our everyday life, or perhaps we are too blind to recognize the opportunities, or maybe we are too lazy to proceed with the opportunities, or it could be a case of being fearful of seizing the opportunities, because they perhaps involve risk, change, and/or stepping out of our comfort zone. We are solely responsible to blame for failing to take the opportunities when they were there to take, meaning that we are responsible for the unhappiness and dissatisfaction we are experiencing in life, no matter how much we like to pass the blame on other people, or circumstances.

The good news for us is that opportunities never cease. Every single day, opportunities are presented to us, whether they are visual and apparent, or whether they may be just options running through our head. The visual and apparent opportunities are those such as a new job offer, a job promotion offer, a business venture offer, someone to form a new relationship with, an investment offer, or anything of the like. These are obvious and often require us to act on making an immediate decision, or at least a fairly hastily one. The opportunities that swirl through our head aren't exactly presented to us, as such. They are decisions that we are not required to act on, as such, although if we don't act on them, it's where we let opportunities slip. It's those type of decisions we know we should make, but we procrastinate over them. In reality, by not acting on them though, we are in effect making the decision not to proceed anyway. It's these opportunities that are quite often greater than the visual opportunities, and ones that tend to shape our future, because more often than not, they offer us the chance to learn, grow, and develop ourselves. These could be decisions such as choosing to part ways from an unhealthy relationship with our partner, which is making us miserable and unhappy. It could be a decision to leave our job to find a new one, or to start a business, because our current job is making us unhappy, miserable, and depressed. It could be a decision to use our savings to travel overseas, to engage in new experiences and cultures, rather than recline into our safety zone of not wanting to spend our savings. What it all comes down to is our courage and our will power. We need to draw on our courage to take some risks, to try different things, to make changes in our life, and to be proactive in pursuing our goals, and building a future we desire for ourselves. The simple rule is, if you're unhappy, miserable, and/or depressed, with any aspects of your life, then have the courage to make changes, because it's opportunity that is calling. We need to find the will power to get off our backside and, not only find the time to commit to working on the actions that are progressing towards our goals, but actually be prioritizing that time, every single day. We need to apply ourselves to hard work, and there may be years of it, in order to reach the goals we wish to achieve, but it's about having that will power to remain focused and remain active, along with having patience, perseverance, and resilience. Here are 10 quotes to help inspire and encourage you to find the courage and the will power to seize the opportunities in your life, to create a future you desire for yourself.

1.- "Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you can, and use it to change the world."

- Rodney Williams Jr.

2.- “Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.”

– Orison Swett Marden

3.- "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

– Winston Churchill

4.- “Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

– William Arthur Ward

5.- "There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity."

- Douglas MacArthur

6.- "It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached."

- Mike Huckabee

7.- "If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."

- Tom Peters

8.- "Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken."

- Robert Breault

9.- "Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again."

- Aidan Chambers

10.- “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

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