Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Opportunity only gives you knockers once.
“I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.”
The only real security is in having lots of opportunity. But risk is the price to pay for opportunity. And risk is scary.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Even if the buildings are old and the textbooks worn, the opportunity to learn is there.
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell.
In the mist of difficulty lies opportunity.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.