Quotes About Seizing

Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.

I spend a lot of time talking about something I believe passionately, which is that life is what you choose to make it, for the most part, and more often than not all you need to do is seize it by the throat and demand more from it.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

So I think you want to keep a keen eye on things. Grab it and go. Sure, you check your financials, but don't be afraid to take a jump. Learn the trends.

The Qatari minister of religious endowments, Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalid al-Tahni, was known to harbor Islamists loyal to bin Laden. If they asked the Qatar government for help in seizing bin Laden, it was likely that Mohammed would be alerted.

Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

Eat dessert first; life is uncertain.

First, unreliability is not the sole preserve of fictional narrators. Second, the pleasure of patting oneself on the back for seizing on instances of unreliability and ignorance is, as the late Frank Kermode may or may not have pointed out, considerable.

You wait and wait, you get used to waiting. But when your time comes, you must not miss it.

Parisians had no doubt that, should the Huguenots succeed in seizing power in France, as it was obvious they were trying to do, the Catholic population would be either forced to convert or suffer annihilation. But

For happiness, he told himself, isn't being loved; that was just a slightly nauseous satisfaction of vanity. Happiness is loving and perhaps seizing a few short illusory moments of intimacy with the object of one's love.

Las ocasiones llegan tarde o temprano, sólo hay que tener la paciencia de esperarlas y buen ojo de saber reconocerlas cuando se presentan.

I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.

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

People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.

A cup final is all about seizing the moment. You cannot put right a mistake or a missed opportunity the following week.

I would say that I'm definitely a morning person - I love getting out of bed and seizing the day ahead.

Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is ... to watch what each day brings.

Seize time by the forelock.

Tomorrow life is too late: live today.

The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

But above all he must refrain from seizing the property of others, because a man is quicker to forget the death of his father than the loss of his patrimony.