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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Francis Bacon


All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein


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


Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.
- James Geary


Opportunity is a bird that never perches.
- Claude McDonald


Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions ? it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol


Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
- Cotton Mather


When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy


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


Never waste a crisis. It can be turned to joyful transformation.
- Rahm Israel Emanuel


We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
- Charles R. Swindoll


It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
- Arthur H Vandenberg


To attract good luck to oneself, it is necessary to take advantage of opportunities.
- George S. Glason


Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
- Sarah Caldwell


Ability is nothing without opportunity.
- Napoleon Bohaparte


If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle


Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Bible


When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere – to buy, expand, design.
- Laurence Graff


No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Seneca


Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not lie ready to their hand, they will make them.
- Samuel Smiles


Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
- Oprah Winfrey


Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
- William Arthur Ward


There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
- Wayne Dyer


Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it and do not know it.
- Doc Sane


Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more
- Anthony Robbins


Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.
- Frederick Phillips


I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
- Oprah Winfrey


I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
- Mark Twain


There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
- Wayne Dyer


Observe the opportunity.
- Bible


Ability is of little account without opportunity.
- Napoleon


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


Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
- Hugh Miller


Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell


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