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

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

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that read more

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not read more

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is read more

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Let nothing pass which will advantage you;
Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind.
[Lat., Rem tibi quam read more

Let nothing pass which will advantage you;
Hairy in front, Occasion's bald behind.
[Lat., Rem tibi quam nosces aptam dimittere noli;
Fronte capillata, post est occasio calva.]

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it