I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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.

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is read more

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Opportunity only knocks once

Opportunity only knocks once

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Seek not for fresher founts afar,
Just drop your bucket where you are;
And while the ship read more

Seek not for fresher founts afar,
Just drop your bucket where you are;
And while the ship right onward leaps,
Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps.
Parch not your life with dry despair;
The stream of hope flow everywhere--
So under every sky and star,
Just drop your bucket where you are.

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon read more

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.