A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill : British prime minister during World War II, winner of Nobel Prize for literature 1953


Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
Hippocrates

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty.
L.P. Jacks

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Whitney M. Young

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Earl Nightingale

"A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity !"
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt : American statesman (32nd US president: 1933-45)


We have a problem for those who advocate competitive equality of opportunity: the prizes won in the competitions of the first generation will tend to defeat the requirements of equality of opportunity for the next.
Lloyd Thomas


There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life.
Phillips Brooks : American Episcopal minister, gave sermon at Lincoln's funeral

We tend to look at successful athletes and make them almost bigger than life. . . . I have seen many young men who have achieved greatness. I have also seen those who have come up a little short of their potential. I do know that those who succeed have been able to . . . recognize within themselves the potential to do something well and then work hard to prepare themselves for that eventual opportunity. Others wait for the opportunity to come and then start to work, thus coming up a little short.
LaVell Edwards : American head football coach of Brigham Young University


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Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

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The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

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

Ingrid Bengis
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.