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Quotes About Seize

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Don't wait for life to happen
~ life is happening now!
In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.
~ David Bronstein
Life is so uncertain, that we ought to secure happiness while it is within our reach.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Albert seized it and put it victoriously into his buttonhole
~ Alexandre Dumas
You have to pick your moment. He'd always said so. Told everyone who'd listen. Have to recognise it when it comes, and seize it, with no care for the past and no worries about the future.
~ Joe Abercrombie
In the end … the only thing a man can really do … is pick his moment. Watch for the opening, and recognise it when it comes, and seize it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
In war, you seize all the high ground you can.' He lifted the egg to his lips, looking small between his big finger and thumb. 'Except the moral kind.' And he sucked the insides out through the hole. 'That ain't worth shit.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Things got so bad that Georgia lawmakers introduced legislation to move the state border north- to seize land that had been in Tennessee since 1818- all to capture a river. The governor turned to Plan B: a miracle. "O, Father, we acknowledge our wastefulness," Sonny Perdue prayed on the steps of the Georgia state capitol in front of a crowd of about a hundred people.
~ Joe Roman
He who seizes the right moment is the right man.
~ Johann von Goethe
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What's left undone to-day, To-morrow will not do. Waste not a day in vain digression: With resolute, courageous trust Seize every possible impression, And make it firmly your possession; You'll then work on, because you must.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To have your every wish, desire, Wake, regard the glorious light! What holds you bound is a mild power, Sleep's a shell, break out of it! Up, no lagging, boldly does it; Though the crowd doubts and delays, All's possible to a brave spirit 4830 Who sees, and seeing's quick to seize.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some say, Life is short. I say; Life is tall-grab a straw!
~ Sark
Life is moments going by, but if you don't grab them, they're gone. For a long time, the only moments that were available were bad ones. So now I make sure to grab the good ones.
~ George Lopez
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
~ William Shakespeare
Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.
~ Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.
~ Ray Bradbury
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
~ Bear Grylls
As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.
~ Horace
Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is too short to be wondering, 'What if?'
~ Charlyne Yi
You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
~ Barbra Streisand