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One person goes through life without seeing chances for doing anything great while another, standing nearby, snatches from the same circumstances and privilegesopportunities for supreme achievement. -Orison Sweet MardenThe world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. -Ralph Waldo EmersonLuck is being ready for chance. -J. Frank DobieTreat every moment as if it is the last opportunity you will have to experienceit. The games weren't won just because they were talented, those players won because they used their talent to known limits and beyond. They didn't have luck, they made luck and they used luck. The games were not played, they were seized."-Joe Paterno

Why, then the world's mine oysterWhich I with sword will open. -William ShakespeareLost time is lost opportunity. -UnknownWe cannot, all of us, make great discoveries like Newton, Faraday, and Edison orpaint immortal pictures like Michelangelo or Raphael, but we can make our livessublime, by seizing common occasions and making them great. -Unknown

Consideration of petty circumstances is the tool of great things. -VoltaireThe mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. -Francis BaconSeize the present moment. -Noah WebsterI'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. -Thomas JeffersonThe world is before you, and you need not take it or leave as it was when you came in. -James Baldwin

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen. -Hugh PratherOur main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. -Thomas CarlyleChance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -OvidWe have two hands and two legs now. The important thing is how can we use them to the maximum. In terms of path, well, straight line, curved line, up, round line. -Bruce LeeThe flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can. -John DonneDr. King was right. You are far from flotsam and jetsam in the river of life. You have the power to influence the unfolding events that surround you. -FranklinD. Raines

Take chances, get messy, make mistakes. -The Magic School BusFor the world is my theatre at this time. -John KingOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and lookslike work. -Thomas Edison

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -HelenKellerProblems are only opportunities in work clothes. -Henry J. KaiserTo every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage. -W. Clement StoneA wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -Francis BaconThe lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity iswhere you are. -John Burroughs

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe

in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. -GeorgeBernard Shaw

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared minds. -Louis PasteurChance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish. -OvidHappiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time and they need not doubt the harvest. -Unknown

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Some people get the breaks; some people make their own. -UnknownI think we all realize that we are living in the richest country the world has ever known. As a matter of fact, we are right in the middle of the golden age manhas dreamed of since the days of Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle. -Earl Night

ingaleTo improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. -Samuel JohnsonCircumstances? I make circumstances. -Napoleon BonaparteThe champion makes his own luck. -Red BlaikEntrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage. -Victor KiamChance favors the prepared mind. -Louis PasteurThere is far more opportunity than there is ability. -Thomas EdisonOpportunities multiply as they are seized. -Sun TzuThe time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning. -John F. KennedyThe greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. -Orison Swett MardenDon't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make themgreat. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. -Orison Swett Ma

rdenIn the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. -Albert EinsteinThe secret of success in life, is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when

it comes. -Benjamin DisraeliIf you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as yougo on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will findthat the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly

than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. -John B. GoughWho makes quick use of the moment, is a genius of prudence. -LavaterIt is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. In the same manner present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted by minds busied in extensive ranges, and intent upon future advantages. Life, however short, is made shorter by waste of time. -Samuel JohnsonEvery hour of time lost, creates a chance of evil for the future. -NapoleonDon't waste life in doubts and fears; spend your self on the work before you, we

ll assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson