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)