OPPORTUNITY

Related Subjects: Advantage, Chance, Circumstance, Environment, Fortune, Luck

1. With doubt and dismay you are smitten
   You think there's no chance for you son?
   Why, the best books haven't been written,
   The best race hasn't been run.—BERTON BRALEY, Opportunity
   

2. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
   Old Time is still a-flying,
   And this same flower that smiles today
   Tomorrow will be dying.—ROBERT HERRICK, To the Virgins to Make Much of Time
   

3. Seize now and here the hour that is, nor trust some later day.—HORACE, Odes
   

4. I knock unbidden once at every gate!
   If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise before
   I turn away. It is the hour of fate.—J. J. INGALLS, Opportunity
   

5. I don't think I regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth—I only regret in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.—HENRY JAMES
   

6. They do me wrong who say I come no more
   When once I knock and fail to find you in;
   For every day I stand outside your door,
   And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win.—WALTER MALONE, Opportunity
   

7. Never refuse a good offer.—Proverb
   

8. There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life could he find it.—Proverb
   

9. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.—Proverb
   

10. An occasion lost cannot be redeemed.—Proverb
    

11. While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae

12. You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

13. We must take the current when it serves,
    Or lose our ventures.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

14. I am busy about the main chance.—SIR RICHARD STEELE
    

15. Now or never was the time.—STERNE, Tristram Shandy
    

16. To every life there comes a time supreme;
    One day, one night, one morning, or one noon,
    One freighted hour, one moment opportune,
    One rift through which sublime fulfilments gleam.—MARY A. TOWNSEND,
    Opportunity