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Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
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.
 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you 
hold well.  
 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you 
hold well. 
 He that will not when he may,
 When he will he shall have nay.  
 He that will not when he may,
 When he will he shall have nay. 
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have read more
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.
 Yet he who grasps the moment's gift,
 He is the proper man.
  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,
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 Yet he who grasps the moment's gift,
 He is the proper man.
  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,
   Das ist der rechte Mann.] 
Most people don't recognize opportunity when it comes, because it's usually dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.
Most people don't recognize opportunity when it comes, because it's usually dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.
 The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most 
possible out of the read more 
 The 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.