By George Matthew Adams (1913)

Opportunity is a Something — not a nothing; also, something Real — not a Phantom. And, too, Opportunity is an Ever-present — here to-day and here to-morrow. By moments, hours, days, weeks, months — years, she hovers about, unseen and unheard — except as her Spirit is felt and — seized!

Opportunity is the hand of Progress to the alert, and the “handwriting on the wall” of Failure, to the groggy and the slothful. For of all Messengers of Light she — Opportunity — is the one most patient, most fair, most just and most considerate.

Opportunity is no respecter of persons or of seasons. She is ever on the job and she ever waits and waits and waits. The man may fall forever asleep — but Opportunity — never. At this actual minute she stands before YOU. All through the livelong day she will be at your call. Lightning-like she flashes her Messages to all — but her sole appeal is — to you. Think! How about it? “Stop, look, listen” — can you see, hear, feel, grip her hand? Make the most of what she holds this day for you. Think — think, think! Then ACT.

For Opportunity, converted into a Fact, is the taking hold on the simplest task at hand — and doing it to a finish in the best way you know how. It’s picking up the pins of Priceless Minutes that the other fellow passes heedlessly over. It’s doing your work BETTER than you are paid for, and tackling bigger jobs than you may think you are capable of handling.

Great is the rise of the man who makes an early friend of Opportunity and takes her with him through the paths of the common everyday.

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