A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Instead of being a Woodrow Wilson democracy promoter we ought to hunt down our enemies and kill ISIS rather than creating opportunities for ISIS to take control of new countries.
If you are not actively seeking and creating opportunities, which always contain an element of risk, you are actually exposing yourself to more serious risks in the long term.
The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining, genuinely interested in the welfare of others, creating opportunities to be of service to them, submissive in the face of injuries and insults, silent in the accidents and adversities of life, and bearing with equanimity the infamies and injustices heaped upon them.
That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs.
Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.
The influence I would hope to have is to create an environment where we're not singling Americans out - that we are creating opportunities for all Americans. Not saying, 'I'm going to funnel money into your city so that you're completely dependent on government.
I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.
Healing is the process of reestablishing the integration between body, mind, and spirit, creating opportunities for the return of the memory of wholeness.
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