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I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while
the iron is hot.
I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while
the iron is hot.
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.
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have read more
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not read more
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the read more
Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities
The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities
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.
He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.
