A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.

God's best gift to us is not things, but opportunities.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.

Look what can happen in this country, they'd say. A girl lives in some out-of-the-way town for nineteen years, so poor she can't afford a magazine, and then she gets a scholarship to college and wins a prize here and a prize there and ends up steering New York like her own private car.

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

If opportunity came disguised as temptation, one knock would be enough.

Opportunity does not knock; it presents itself when you beat down the door.