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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.
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.
Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
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.
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.
Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you
hold well.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you
hold well.
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.
