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For every man there comes that special moment when he is physically tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing - unique to him and fitted to his talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for

Orison Swett Marden

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Bruce Marton

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

Christa McAuliffe

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

American Proverb

Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Richard M. Nixon

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

Johann von Goethe

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

Seneca

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Dr. Jonas Salk

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Douglas MacArthur

There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.

Bouilly

Whatever we possess becomes of double value When we have the opportunity of sharing it with others.

B. A. Fajimi

Every disappointment gives you opportunity to make another appointment.

Unknown

The door to opportunity is always labeled 'push'.

Kenneth Hildebrand

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...

Hippocrates

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.

Basil S. Walsh

We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

Kahlil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.

Neil Peart

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Bobby Unser

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Helen Schucman

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.

Cassia Lewis

Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity.

Latin Proverb

Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping.

Thomas Peters

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

John Dewey

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Ayn Rand

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Kyle Chandler

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

Helen Rowland

The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Mike Singletary

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

Karl Kraus

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Anthony Robbins

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

Henry Ford

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Orison Swett Marden

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty.

Johann von Goethe

Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Margaret Cho

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Orison Swett Marden

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

William Arthur Ward

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

Unknown

Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.

Charles Dudley Warner

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Zora Neale Hurston

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Steve Gray

Opportunity knocks at the strangest times, It's not the time that matters But how you answer the door.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.

Dan Quayle

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Lewis Grizzard

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Samuel Goldwyn

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Alcaeus

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Ellen Metcalf

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

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

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

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity.

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.

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

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

My favorite part of the game is the opportunity to play.

All I ask for is the opportunity to prove that money can't make me happy.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.

Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

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

I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.

Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers.

All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjusti

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone.

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

"Opportunity plus instinct equals profit." - Larry Niven