Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Success, even in a comparatively limited field, is some compensation for failure in a wider field of endeavour.

To reach something good, it is useful to have gone astray.

When a constraint exists advantage can usually be taken of it.

Success without fulfillment is failure

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.

But grant me from time to time — if there are divine goddesses in the realm beyond good and evil — grant me the sight, but one glance of something perfect, wholly achieved, happy, mighty, triumphant, something still capable of arousing fear! Of a man who justifies man, of a complementary and redeeming lucky hit on the part of man for the sake of which one may still believe in man!

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".

We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.

You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.

We don't always get what we want, but sometimes what is happeing is for the best.