If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
-Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
-Charles Buxton

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.
-Arthur Brisbane

A problem is an opportunity in work clothes.
-Henry J. Kaiser

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage, and bring to a boil.
-Bernard Baruch

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-Milton Berle

Opportunity always involves some risk. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
-Anonymous

There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it's a good idea to perform it as well as possible.
-Humphry Osmond

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
-Pat Riley

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
-Anonymous

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
-Tom Peters

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.
-Orel Hershiser

It used to be I wanted everything to be perfect. Now I can take the good with the bad. Because I realize now that I'm going to get another at-bat, another chance.
-Albert Belle

Every moment is a new opportunity.
-Josh McMahon

When opportunity knocks, she's often disguised as a problem.
-Neville D Christie

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.
-Walter P Chrysler

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

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

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
-Sir Francis Bacon

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
-Barry Switzer