“There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.”
“Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.”
“Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.”
“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.”
“Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”
“We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.”
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”
“Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.”
“Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.”
“You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own ''acres of diamonds.''”
“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”
“One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.”
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.”
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
“It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.”
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.”
“As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!”
“Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.”
“Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.”
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.”
“The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.”
“It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.”
“Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.”
“Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.”
“Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”
“Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”
“The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.”
“When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.”