A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
You have to do your best to face every moment, because this moment will never come again. The moment that you are living right now is a very important opportunity to make your life vividly alive. If you want to live with spiritual security in the midst of constant change, you have to burn the flame of your life force in everything you do.
I create opportunities.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.
Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
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