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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.
"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.
Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more
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.
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.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories read more
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.