Quotes About Opportunity

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

Progress means taking risks, for you can't steal home and keep your foot on third base.

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.

Make hay while the sun shines.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

The future is a great land.

The possibilities for tomorrow are usually beyond our expectations.

No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

The past is the tomorrow that got away.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

This is not a dress rehearsal. This is It.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Now is the only time we own; give, love, toil with a will. And place no faith in tomorrow, for the clock may then be still.

You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is cash in hand. Spend It!

The past cannot be regained, although we can learn from it; the future is not yet ours even though we must plan for it. ... Time is now. We have only today.

Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow.

Do not manage as if you had ten thousand years before you. Look you, death stands at your elbow; make the most of your minute, and be good for something while it is in your power.

And if not now, when?

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.