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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 |
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| Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. |
| Laurence J. Peter |
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| 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 |
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| Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. |
| Seneca |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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