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    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?

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This could but have happened once,
And we missed it, lost it forever.

This could but have happened once,
And we missed it, lost it forever.

by Robert Browning Found in: Opportunity Quotes,
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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.]

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You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, read more

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

by Barbara Bush Found in: Opportunity Quotes,
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Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

by Robert South Found in: Opportunity Quotes,
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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.

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Opportunities always look bigger going than coming

Opportunities always look bigger going than coming

by Bob Feller Found in: Opportunity Quotes,
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Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the read more

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

by Robert Brault Found in: Opportunity Quotes,
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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.]

by Dionysius Cato Found in: Opportunity Quotes,
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

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