Life Opportunity Quotes - Page 3

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

  William James

  Life, Positive, Art

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Opportunity, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• Ability is of little account without opportunity.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

  William Arthur Ward

  Opportunity, Knocking, Difficult

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• Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Happiness, Regret, Opportunity

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.133, Jerome K. Jerome

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

  William Shakespeare

  Opportunity, Sea Voyage, Venture

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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• 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, till all are gone.

  Thomas Jones

  Children, Fall, Opportunity

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• Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Strength, Strong, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Opportunity, Values

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

  Whitney M. Young

  Inspirational, Opportunity, African American

  "Independent Lens: The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights". TV Series, 2013.

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• The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Taken, Opportunity, Men

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• Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in

  Orison Swett Marden

  Opportunity, Tuning, Broadcasting

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• The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

  Helen Rowland

  Regret, Women, Opportunity

  A Guide to Men "Improvisations" (1922)

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• Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Mother

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• In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

  David Bronstein

  Success, Opportunity, Chess

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• We all know of the dangers and inequities of the traditional digital divide: People who have good access tocomputer networks have a distinct advantage - in terms of both life opportunities and quality of life, I wouldargue - over the vast majority of the world's population that does not yet have good access to computernetworks. The "other" digital divide points to an increasingly unstable situation that has developed inlibrarianship as digital libraries have evolved and matured.

  Tom Peters

  Opportunity, People, Library

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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