Quotes About Opportunity

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

Delay not to seize the hour!

If you don't place your foot on the rope, you'll never cross the chasm.

He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him.

Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.

You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.

Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.

The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

"Now" is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

He who hesitates is last.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.

There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

You can't get rich sitting on the bench.

Action makes more fortunes than caution.

The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.

He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other.