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Quotes Opportunity

op·por·tu·ni·ty n.
1 : a favorable juncture of circumstances (the halt provided an opportunity for rest and refreshment)
2 : a good chance for advancement or progress
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary





"When a man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself." - Jacques-Yves Cousteau


"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -Thomas Edison


"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." -Ann Landers


"The lure of the distant and the difficulty is deceptive. The great opportunity is where your are." -John Burroughs


"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." -Francis Bacon


"Opportunity... often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporaray defeat." -Napoleon Hill


"Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it." -Orison Swett Marden


"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." -Henry J. Kaiser


"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." -Albert Einstein


"Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter." -B.C. Forbes


"We don't need more strengh or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have." -Basil S. Walsh


"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day." -Sally Koch


"It opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." -Milton Berle

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