Life Quotes... Opportunity

“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”
                                                 Ann Landers

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

“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.”
                                                Bruce Marton

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
                                                Duke Ellington

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
                                                Helen Keller

“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”
                                                Henry J. Kaiser

“Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)”
                                                Horace

“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.”
                                                Laurence J. Peter

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

“We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.”
                                                Pogo

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

“No opportunity is ever lost.  Someone else seizes the ones you missed.”

“Some people not only expect opportunity to knock, they expect it to beat the door down.”

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