A thousand year a poor man watched
Before the gate of Paradise:
But while one little nap read more

A thousand year a poor man watched
Before the gate of Paradise:
But while one little nap he snatched,
It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and read more

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

I knock unbidden once at every gate--
If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before
I turn away--it is read more

I knock unbidden once at every gate--
If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before
I turn away--it is the hour of fate,
And they who follow me reach every state
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate,
Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
Seek me in vain and uselessly implore,
I answer not, and I return no more.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art read more

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