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    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.

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Holding occasion by the hand,
Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower,
Waiving what none can understand,
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Holding occasion by the hand,
Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower,
Waiving what none can understand,
I make mine hour.

by John Vance Cheney Found in: Opportunity Quotes,
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Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

by Roy D. Chapin Jr. Found in: Opportunity Quotes,
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most
possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is
success, and there is no other.

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He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.

He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.

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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.

by Arthur Brisbane Found in: Opportunity Quotes,
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You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

by Edward S. Martin 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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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.

by Howard Hendricks Found in: Opportunity Quotes,
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America is another name for opportunity.

America is another name for opportunity.

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