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“The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“Failure is an opportunity.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities. Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.” Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“I find my zenith doth depend upon a most auspicious star, whose influence if now I court not, but omit, my fortunes will ever after droop.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“OPPORTUNITY, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds make deeds ill done!” William Shakespeare, King John

“The success of our economy has always depended, not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity, on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart, not out of charity, but because it is the surest...” Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“If life teaches you nothing else, know this: When you get the chance, go for it.” Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

“Anything can be a miracle, a blessing, an opportunity if you choose to see it that way.” Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

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