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 Opportunity

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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.   (James M. Barrie)
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.   (Thomas A. Edison)
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.   (Henry J. Kaiser)
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.   (Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on a Road 1942)
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.   (General Douglas MacArthur)
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.   (Thomas A. Edison)
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.   (Ellen Metcalf)
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.   (Abraham Lincoln)
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.   (Richard M. Nixon)
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.   (General Douglas MacArthur)
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.   (Stephen R. Covey)
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.   (Harry S Truman)
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.   (Thomas A. Edison)
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.   (Douglas MacArthur)
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.   (Sir Winston Churchill)
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.   (Albert Einstein)
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.   (Unknown)
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.   (Unknown)
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.   (Whitney Young Jr.)
Ability is of little account without opportunity.   (Napoleon Bonaparte)
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.   (William James)
Ability is nothing without opportunity.   (Napoleon I)
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.   (Albert Einstein)
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.   (John D. Rockefeller Jr.)


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