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Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find:
Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find:
Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
"Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry;
"Oh, give us water or we die!"
A voice came read more
"Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry;
"Oh, give us water or we die!"
A voice came o'er the waters far,
"Just drop your bucket where you are."
And then they dipped and drank their fill
Of water fresh from mead and hill;
And then they knew they sailed upon
The broad mouth of the Amazon.
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.
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon read more
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
