You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

A thousand year a poor man watched
Before the gate of Paradise:
But while one little nap read more

A thousand year a poor man watched
Before the gate of Paradise:
But while one little nap he snatched,
It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?

Not by appointment do we meet delight
Or joy; they heed not our expectancy;
But round some read more

Not by appointment do we meet delight
Or joy; they heed not our expectancy;
But round some corner of the streets of life
They of a sudden greet us with a smile.

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

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

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.