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

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.--Brian Tracy 

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.--Ralph Waldo Emerson 

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.--Ralph Waldo Emerson 

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.--Rosamond Lehmann (The Ballad and the Source) 

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