The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Thomas A. Edison

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
John D. Rockefeller

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Kobe Bryant

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Lucille Ball

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Oprah Winfrey

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey

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

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Tom Peters

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
Robert Collier

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
Robert Collier

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Woodrow Wilson