| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Cowley | Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind. |
| Abraham Cowley | Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. |
| Alberta Flanders | Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. |
| Alexi Sayle | Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often |
| Ann Landers | Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. |
| Arthur Brisbane | The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work. |
| Arthur H Vandenberg | It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity. |
| Barbara Bush | 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. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Plough deep while sluggards sleep. |
| Anonymous | 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. |
| Anonymous | 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. |
| Bible | Observe the opportunity. |
| Bible | Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. |
| Charles Buxton | You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | 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. |
| Cotton Mather | Our opportunities to do good are our talents. |
| Dionysius Cato | Let nothing pass which will advantage you; Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind. |
| Doris Lessing | Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. |
| Earl Nightingale | Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together. |
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