The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

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.

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.]

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an read more

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that read more

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.