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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that read more
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
[Lat., Rapiamus, amici,
Occasionem de read more
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
[Lat., Rapiamus, amici,
Occasionem de die.]
Seek not for fresher founts afar,
Just drop your bucket where you are;
And while the ship read more
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.
Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.
Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you
hold well.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you
hold well.
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most
possible out of the read more
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most
possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is
success, and there is no other.
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is read more
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more
