Often the difference beween a successful person and a failure is not that one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage one has to act on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock?
It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening and hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all.
You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live.


Maxwell Maltz