Quotes About Opportunity

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Benjamin Franklin

Do not fear mistakes.

Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made out of.

dost thou love life? then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of,

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

If dost thou love life, then Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says.

The used key is always bright.

Work while it is called today for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow.

The cat in gloves catches no mice. Make hay while the sun shines.

I experienced, too, the truth of the observation, "that after getting the first hundred pound, it is more easy to get the second," money itself being of a prolific nature.

The Use of Money is all the Advantage there is in having Money.

Who is there that can be handsomely Supported in Affluence, Ease and Pleasure by another, that will chuse rather to earn his Bread by the Sweat of his own Brows?

Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Gov'r. Thomas was so pleas'd with the construction of this stove, as described in it, that he offered to give me a patent for the sole vending of them for a term of years; but I declin'd it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz., That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.

He that wastes idly a groat's worth of his time per day one day with another, wastes the privilege of using 100£ each day.

I declin'd it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz., That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.

the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,

For age and want save while you may; No morning sun lasts a whole day.