Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

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.

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.

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is read more

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome read more

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

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.

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.