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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make read more
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
There is an hour in each man's life appointed
To make his happiness, if then he seize it.
There is an hour in each man's life appointed
To make his happiness, if then he seize it.
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, read more
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success
The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks
at your door but is playing an read more
The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks
at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door,
and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The
world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases
can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually
smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him
forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have
to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can
get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity
does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves
that they are alive.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Yet he who grasps the moment's gift,
He is the proper man.
[Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift,
He is the proper man.
[Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,
Das ist der rechte Mann.]
