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Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous Many an opportunity is lost read more
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
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.
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.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do read more
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
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.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.
Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.
"Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry;
"Oh, give us water or we die!"
A voice came read more
"Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry;
"Oh, give us water or we die!"
A voice came o'er the waters far,
"Just drop your bucket where you are."
And then they dipped and drank their fill
Of water fresh from mead and hill;
And then they knew they sailed upon
The broad mouth of the Amazon.
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
