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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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.
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.
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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.
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, read more
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find:
Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find:
Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
