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Opportunity

Chance, break, occasion, shot

QUOTES

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.
 Bruce Marton
 

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
 Budd Schulberg
 On the Waterfront, 1954

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect, makes a few men rich.
 Henry Ford
 

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
 John Dryden
 Aeneis, 1697

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
 Ann Landers
 

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.
 Wm Shakespeare
 Julius Caesar, 1599

See Also Crises Luck

References

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Literature

  • Stendhal; The Red and the Black




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