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Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Benjamin Franklin
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
Bruce Barton
Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
Ambrose Bierce
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!
William Shakespeare
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.
Gloria Estefan
We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.
Tom Sharp
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Anon.
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Karl Marx
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Helen Keller
If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean even if it did build muscle whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities.
Christopher Hitchens
Where one door closes, another opens.
Don Quijote
Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
Roy D. Chapin Jr.
Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.
Paul Cezanne
Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it
Eli Ginzberg
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Oprah Winfrey
For every man there comes that special moment when he is physically tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing - unique to him and fitted to his talents.What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour.
Anon., widely attributed to Wins
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Pogo
Opportunities neglected can never be recovered.
Proverb
The back of one door is the face of another.
