Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

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.]

Opportunities are there for only a second but you got to see it, just like a shooting star.

Opportunities are there for only a second but you got to see it, just like a shooting star.

The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities

The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an read more

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks
at your door but is playing an read more

The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks
at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door,
and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The
world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases
can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually
smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him
forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have
to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can
get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity
does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves
that they are alive.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.