Seizing opportunities sayings

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◆ 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.

- Maltbie Davenport Babcock99

◆ Welcome every new and difficult problem in life as a new opportunity to wrestle and win — and to gain new experience and new power.

- L H. Murlin99

◆ 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.

- Thomas Jones99

◆ The future is an opportunity.

- J. F. Ware99

◆ 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.

- Ecclesiastes 9:1199

◆ To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ 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.

- Katherine Krieger99

◆ A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.

- William Ellery Channing99

◆ Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offered, Shall never find it more.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

- Time99

◆ When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.

- Marie Ebner Eschenbach99

◆ There's a time for all things.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ 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.

- George Eliot99

◆ 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.

- Walter Matthews99

◆ We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.

- Walter E. Cole99