All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein

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

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Tony Robbins

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Tony Robbins

America is another name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Margaret Thatcher

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Voltaire

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
Napoleon Hill

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill