The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity: an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.  Orison Sweet Marden quotes To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. Orison Sweet Marden quotes Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it. Orison Sweet Marden quotes Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please. Plutarch quotes Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. Oscar Wilde quotes The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes with healing in its wings; with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny. Richard M. Nixon quotes All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents. John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. Sun Tzu quotes The opportunity 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 quotes The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. William Ellery Channing quotes | 
