Opportunities are on every hand; what we need is, not a new chance, but clearness of vision to discern the chance which at this very hour is ours, if we recognize it.--Katherine Krieger 

Opportunities are seldom labeled.--John A. Shedd 

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

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.--Anonymous 

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.--H. J. Brown, Jr. (A Hero in Every Heart) 

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.--William A. Ward 

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.--Sir Winston Churchill 

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.--Charles Caleb Colton (Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words) 

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.--Gloria Estefan 

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.--Shirley Hufstedler 

"Single" is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.--Mandy Hale (The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass) 

Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes) 

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.--Wayne W. Dyer 

There is no security on this Earth; there is only opportunity.--Douglas MacArthur

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes.... Keep hope alive.--Jesse Jackson 

Hope and possibility best describe the art of teaching.--Camille Banks Lee (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe) 

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.--William Sloan Coffin, Jr. 

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.--Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life) 

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.--François de la Rochefoucauld 

Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.--Saint Augustine 

Hope is a good thing--maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies.--Stephen King (The Shawshank Redemption) 

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.--Thomas Chandler Haliburton 

Hope is a talent like any other.--Storm Jameson 

Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.--Jeremy Collier 

Hope is a waking dream.--Aristotle 

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.--George Saville 

Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.--Lin Yutang 

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.--Letitia E. Landon 

Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.--Max Lucado (God Came Near) 

Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.--Samuel Smiles