Opportunity Quotes

“I have been long a sleeper; but I trustMy absence doth neglect no great designWhich by my presence might have been concluded.”

“Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.”

“Make use of time, let not advantage slip.”

“Take all the swift advantage of the hours.”

“Time be thine,And thy best graces spend it at thy will.”

“When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport,But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.”

“That we would doWe should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,And hath abatements and delays as manyAs there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,That hurts by easing.”

“Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.”

“Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.”

“The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.”

“There's place and means for every man alive.”

“You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.”

“By how much unexpected, by so muchWe must awake endeavour for defence;For courage mounteth with occasion.”

“. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.”

“English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.”

“Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.”

“Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.”

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”

“Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,And marching single in an endless file,Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;To each they offer gifts after his will,Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;I, in my pleached garden watched the pompForgot my morning wishes, hastilyTook a few herbs and apples, and the DayTurned and departed silent. I too lateUnder her solemn fillet saw the scorn.”

“For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.”

“Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future”

“Let's take the instant by the forward top;For we are old, and on our quick'st decreesThe inaudible and noiseless foot of TimeSteals ere we can effect them.”

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”

“For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.”