Quotes About Opportunity

The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.

Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

Who loses a day loses life.

If we only knew the real value of a day.

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again.

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Seize the hour.

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely-by planning and setting priorities.

Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved.

I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

There is time for everything.