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 wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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.

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

Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.