quotations about opportunity
Opportunity possessing the power over all things, acquires much in its course.
SOPHOCLES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Studies in Nature and Literature
We must take the current when it serves
Or lose our ventures.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Julius Caesar
There is a glass called opportunity
All pregnant with bright prophecies, if man
But read at the propitious moment.
But--let the fecund second slip and lo!
The globule tumbles from his coward's hands
Splintering a rain of lost forevers
Upon the sunless stretches of the world.
PHILIP MOELLER
The Roadhouse in Arden
Let today be the day ... you stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.
STEVE MARABOLI
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and that of doing good once a year.
VOLTAIRE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Opportunity is as constant as the shadows that walk with us, and is always present in our affairs.
DOC SCHMIDT
The International Stereotypers and Electrotypers Union Journal, April 1921
Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
The Butlerian Jihad
We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot.
RICHARD SHARP
Letters and Essays in Prose and Verse
Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.
A. M. HONORÉ
"Social Justice"
Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
SAMUEL SMILES
Self-Help
Opportunity is the great bawd.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1735
We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.
THOMAS EDISON
attributed, Famous Quotes from 100 Great People
Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.
T. JONES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Every man knows that there are moments upon which hang the destiny of years. It is only for the moment that the favorable opportunity is presented. If we miss it, months, months and years are lost. What is the doing of a deed but the sowing of a seed? If it is not sown at the right time, it will not germinate. How priceless are the sunny days of youth, so rich in opportunity. Is it not always the nick of time for an active-minded youth? His brain cells and nerves are plastic, and it is easy to make an impression upon the mind itself, by which life's activities may be so regulated that his success will be as certain as the processes of mechanism. The determining moment is often very brief, and if we are on the watch, and always ready to seize it, it will make all the difference to us between success and failure.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
The Hour of Opportunity
The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Corrino
Opportunities are importunities; they are like flowers that fade at night; seize them, therefore, while they last.
G. S. BOWES
attributed, Day's Collacon
To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
attributed, Day's Collacon
Did Mr. Woolworth, who created a chain of more than one thousand five and ten cent stores, wait on opportunity? Did Thomas A. Edison and thousands of men and women who have achieved big things wait on opportunity? Decidedly not! They either created their own opportunity or prepared themselves to receive it when it presented itself.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Opportunity", Human Life from Many Angles
Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
Architects of Fate