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| A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. | | Oscar Wilde | |
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| Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it | | George Washington | |
| Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. | | Laurence J. Peter | |
| He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. | | William James | |
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| I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
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| If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. | | Seneca | |
| Most people don't recognize opportunity when it comes, because it's usually dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work. | | Thomas Alva Edison | |
| Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. | | Maya Angelou | |
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| Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. | | Ambrose Bierce | |
| Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. | | Thomas Alva Edison | |
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| 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 | | Dale Carnegie | |
| The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way | | Helen Keller | |
| The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. | | Thomas Alva Edison | |
