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Four things come not back the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.

We must dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

No one wearies of benefits received.

Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.

And it would show me once again that one opportunity leads directly to another just as risk leads to more risk life to more life and death to more death.

Coincidences give you opportunities to look more deeply into your existence.

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Injuries should be done all together, so that being, less tasted, they will give less offense. Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Every one has bad breaks, but every one also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Our lives are defined by opportunities even the ones we miss.

While amidst the crowd and seeking quieteness in another zone you can still get away from them by homing in on matters within.

The only thing limiting your aspiration is your imagination.

Opportunity has power over all things.

When you live for many hundreds of years you know that every opportunity will come again.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Dont live to be judged for what you havent done. Live to be judged for what you have done.

When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.

Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.

Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

In this marvelous dispensation of the fulness of times our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless but they are also perishable.

Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons.

The great secret of success in life is for a man to be ready when his opportunity comes.

If you do not have persistence then no amount of education talent or genius can make up for it.

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well protected pursuit.

Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.

In the autumn of your years dont make it so that what you look back on is regret. Live your life now so that whatever you do gives some sunshine before you head into the winter of your life.

Recognize that throughout this beautiful dayyou have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go.

The only time you have no opportunities is when you decide to stop taking them.

“It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path.”

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”