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Opportunity Quotations |
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Great opportunities come to all but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is simple fidelity to what each day brings. The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity. Take all the swift advantage of the hours. Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Everyone must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. Welcome every new and difficult problem in life as a new opportunity to wrestle and win — and to gain new experience and new power. 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. The future is an opportunity. The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Opportunities are on every hand; what we need is, not a new chance, but clearness of vision to discern the chance which at this very hour is ours, if we recognize it. A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them. Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offered, Shall never find it more. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can. There's a time for all things. The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. We have the power within, but the secret of success is to employ our power and talents and be prepared for opportunity when it comes. We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity. A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost. Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice. Arrange whatever pieces come your way. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities; they will never come. Occasions are rare: and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer. Ability is of little account without opportunity. The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources. Chance is always powerful; let your hook always be cast in a pool where you least expect there will be fish. How often events, by chance and unexpectedly, come to pass, which you had not dared even to hope for! A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment — who can tell when it will be upon us? Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door. Improve time in the present; for opportunity is precious, and time is a sword. |
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