[Purple]

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

~William Hale White

[Hoyden]

A few of my favorites:

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~ Thomas Alva Edison


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



And this one is in my BSL file:

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose. ~ C. Wright Mills