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If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein

Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

- Cochran

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

- Patty Hansen

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

- Francis Bacon

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. ... You might not be home.

- Jinger Heath

If you want to succeed in the world, you must make your own opportunities.

- John B. Gough

Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.

- Henriette Anne Klauser

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

- B. C. Forbes

A filly who wants to run will always find a rider.

- Jacques Audiberti

Life is what we make it; always has been, always will be.

- Grandma Moses

God forgives those who invent what they need.

- Ayn Rand

Many things are lost for want of asking.

- English proverb

You don't just luck into things ... you build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

- Barbara Bush

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

- Sallust

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.

- Benjamin Franklin

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

- General Douglas MacArthur

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life than of death.

- James F. Byrnes

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.

- Albert Camus

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

- Publilius Syrus

I have always been waiting for something better-sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me.

- Dorothy Reed Mendenhall

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line? Will it be everything you dreamed of? We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

- Gloria Estefan

You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.

- Bobby Murcer

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

- Starhawk

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

- Cotton Mather

Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

- Finley Peter Dunne

It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

- Arthur Vandenberg

You can't make souffle rise twice.

- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

- Benjamin Disraeli

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

- Helen Rowland