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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

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

They do me wrong who say I come no more, When once I know and fail to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door And bid you wait, and rise to fight and win.

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life They of a sudden greet us with a smile.

It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.