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Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. - Oliver Cromwell Our great social and political advantage is opportunity. - George William Curtis Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well. - Sydney Thompson Dobell Thou strong seducer, opportunity! of womankind, half are undone by thee. - John Dryden Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of daily occurrence. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Alva Edison There is far more opportunity than there is ability. - Thomas Alva Edison 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 Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley. - Ralph Waldo Emerson No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Little opportunities should be improved. - Francois de Salignac Fenelon "Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry; "Oh, give us water or we die!" A voice came o'er the waters far, "Just drop your bucket where you are." And then they dipped and drank their fill Of water fresh from mead and hill; And then they knew they sailed upon The broad mouth of the Amazon. - Sam Walter Foss, Opportunity Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are. - Sam Walter Foss, Opportunity Opportunity is the great bawd. - Benjamin Franklin One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship. - Milton Friedman Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man. [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift, Das ist der rechte Mann.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (I, 4, 494) Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) Man's extremity is God's opportunity. - John Hamilton, Lord Belhaven, in the Scottish Parliament, Nov. 2, 1706, protesting against union of England and Scotland Displaying page 2 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5
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