Quotes About Opportunity

Time lost can never be recovered," he said, "and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

Ruining is a gift .. it's the way of changing.

Insane was letting an opportunity pass you by. Insane was debating so long over what you wanted that it disappeared.

I'm a librarian," she said, "employed in the San Molinas library. For various reasons, I have never married. My position gives me at once an opportunity to cultivate a taste for the best in literature, and to learn something of character. I have nothing in common with the younger set who find alcoholic stimulation the necessary prerequisite to any attempt at conversation or enjoyment.

Be like the clam," Mason said. "At high tide?" "What's the difference?" he asked. "You gather clams at low tide." "Right," Mason said. "Be like a clam at high tide.

given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it ... look at it and really see it ... try it on ... live it ... exhaust it ... and never give that minute back until there was nothing left of it.

Breakdown occurs either because of too much possibility or too little; philistinism, as we observed earlier, knows its real enemy and tries to play it safe with freedom.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Take a good rest, small bird, he said. Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?

It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

Don't think, old man, he said aloud. Sail on this course and take it when it comes.

It was never what he had done,but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

Everyone given the right opportunity will behave badly.

But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.