A Quote by Herbert V. Prochnow

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

Herbert V. Prochnow

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Always Disguised Hard Hard Work Opportunity Trouble Work

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Herbert V. Prochnow
American - Businessman
May 19, 1897 - September 29, 1998

People seldom recognize opportunity for it comes disguised as hard work.

K. Balachander

Sometimes success is disguised as hard work.

S. Truett Cathy

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

Ann Landers

It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's no friction in it. There's no trouble. You have to have trouble. Somebody's got to get in trouble, or no one wants to read it.

Paul Bowles

You see opportunity... Opportunity is like a window: every once in a while, it opens, if you're ready for that opportunity. So be prepared, work hard, and follow your dreams.

Nita Strauss

Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

Napoleon Hill

Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence

Jay Bilas

I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.

T.I.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.

Dwayne Johnson

We've been training since we were small. You definitely got to love it to be part of this family. We like to have fun. We like to work hard, and always staying out of trouble and always doing the right thing.

Glenn Gronkowski

Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation.

Eckhart Tolle

Every day is an opportunity disguised as a challenge.

Tiki Barber

Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.