I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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.

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.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do read more

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

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.

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.

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

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.]