Emurse

“Most of us never recognize opportunity until it goes to work in our competitor’s business.”
P.L. Andarr

“Four things come not back– the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity”
Arabian Proverb

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
Francis Bacon

“When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell

“The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity.”
Victor Chasles

“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.”
Winston Churchill

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
Demosthenes

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

“Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is single fidelity to watch what each day brings.”
Albert E. Dunning

“There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.”
Douglas MacArthur

“If it exists, it’s possible.”
John P. Grier

“We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.”
Walt Kelly

“I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes.”
Sara Teasdale

“To every man his chance, to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity. To every man the right to live, to work, to be himself and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can contribute to make him.”
Thomas Wolfe

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