From the song 'Better Day' by Saving Jane:

I gotta make my own luck,
I gotta find my own way,
I gotta see that there is more to life than just existing,
I wanna be living.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BwuSfbICBs

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. "
- Francis Bacon

"The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other."
- Judge Walter Malone

"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."
- Kyle Chandler

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
- Milton Berle

"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream; you've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."
- Diana Ross

MainMessageForToday
Some people do not sit back and wait for their opportunities. They create them. They are go-getters who are persistent and do not take no for an answer. Some even lie and cheat to create opportunities.

From the song 'Ghost of a Chance':

I don't believe in destiny
Or the guiding hand of fate,
I don't believe in forever
Or love as a mystical state,
I don't believe in the stars or the planets
Or angels watching from above,
But I believe there's a ghost of a chance we can find someone to love
And make it last... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqkhArHBHM

"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them."
- Hugh Miller, Snow on the Wind

"Inside of every problem lies an opportunity."
- Robert Kiyosaki

"Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise."
- Kobe Bryant

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas A. Edison

"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."
- Napoleon Hill

"Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards."
- William Arthur Ward

MainMessageForToday
A lot of times it is hard to see how a problem is an opportunity, but it is said that inside every problem is an opportunity. That job loss could be an opportunity to open your own business or further your education or do something you always wanted to do.

From the song 'Given A Chance' by Babyface:

Given a chance,
I'd make it up to you.
Given a chance,
I'd prove this world was wrong.
Given a chance,
I'd give my all to you.
I'd teach this world a lesson
And I'd never let you fall,
Given a chance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dLFtVC18n8

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."
- John Burroughs

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."
- Napoleon Hill

"Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often."
- Alexi Sayle

"What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully."
- Charles Victor Cherbuliez

"You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait."
- Demosthenes

MainMessageForToday
Would you recognize an opportunity in front of your eyes? Opportunities may be in surprising places.

From the song 'A Moment Like This' by first American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson:

A moment like this,
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this,
Some people search forever
For that one special kiss,
Oh, I can't believe it's happening to me,
Some people wait a lifetime
For a moment like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7b8ADhadJU

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."
- Tony Robbins

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."
- Roy D. Chapin Jr.

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
- Lucille Ball

MainMessageForToday
It is said in so many ways - you will be lucky when your hard work has prepared you to grap opportunities when they present themselves.

Theme for the week 2/7 - 2/13: #Opportunity, which follows last week's theme Luck.