#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.”

“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?”

“The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.”

“Every wall is a door.”

“If money go before, all ways do lie open.”

“Make use of time, let not advantage slip;Beauty within itself should not be wasted:Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their primeRot and consume themselves in little time.”

“Everything good is on the highway.”

“Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.”

“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”

“The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings”

“You are an alchemist; make gold of that.”

“I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.”

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

“Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.”

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”

“Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.”

“We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?”

“We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”

“During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.”

“With opportunity comes responsibility.”

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!”

“In delay there lies no plenty.”

“Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.”

“A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.”

“We miss 100 percent of the sales we don’t ask for.”