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 Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people 
don't recognize them.  
 Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people 
don't recognize them. 
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.
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
 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.] 
 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. 
 I knock unbidden once at every gate--
 If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before
  I turn away--it is read more 
 I knock unbidden once at every gate--
 If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before
  I turn away--it is the hour of fate,
   And they who follow me reach every state
    Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
     Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate,
      Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
       Seek me in vain and uselessly implore,
        I answer not, and I return no more. 
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
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.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.