Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind