Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along. – Hugh Allen
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break. – William Hale White
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. – William Arthur Ward
Opportunity is a bird that never perches. – Claude McDonald
Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it and do not know it. – Doc Sane
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. – Maltbie Babcock
Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. – Frederick Phillips
Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. – Bulgarian Proverb
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. – Mark Twain
Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Ability is of little account without opportunity. – Napoleon
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli
Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
What I do know is that if one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river. – Anchee Min, Becoming Madame Mao
As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. – Sidney Lumet
An aging man cannot rewrite his youth but a youth may rewrite his own future. – Terri Guillemets
