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You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.
You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.
Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.
Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.
They do me wrong who say I come no more,
When once I know and fail to find you read more
They do me wrong who say I come no more,
When once I know and fail to find you in;
For every day I stand outside your door
And bid you wait, and rise to fight and win.
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.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go read more
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown.
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown.
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
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.