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

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

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

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

Opportunity comes in a once while, you got to see it, just like a shooting star.

If the wind is against you then start sailing against it because the wind may never change in your favor.

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.