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Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.
Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
 Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
 [Lat., Rapiamus, amici,
  Occasionem de read more 
 Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
 [Lat., Rapiamus, amici,
  Occasionem de die.] 
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, read more
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success
Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
 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? 
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories read more
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity.