Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.— Alexander Graham Bell

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I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson

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If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.

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Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

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If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. – Charles M. Schulz

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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going – Beverly Sills

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If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed. -Kanye West

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