Seizing opportunities quotes

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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.

- A. E. Dunning100

◆ The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity.

- Victor Chasles100

◆ A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.

- Syrus99

◆ The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

- Benjamin Disraeli99

◆ You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

- Charles Buxton99

◆ 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.

- Ludwig Tieck99

◆ How often events, by chance, and unexpectedly, came to pass, which you had not dared even to hope for!

- Terence99

◆ Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

- Voltaire99

◆ Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

- Virginia Woolf99

◆ The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

- John Burroughs99

◆ Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

- Janet Erskine Stuart99

◆ Occasions are rare: and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.

- H. W. Shaw99

◆ Ability is of little account without opportunity.

- Napoleon Bonaparte99

◆ Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

- Ovid99

◆ The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

- Marquis de Vauvenargues99