Quotes about Prospect

Danger is opportunity's seer.

If you are in a situation where you can turn an opportunity into something great, grab that chance.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

And looking ahead, the prospect of her life made her feel as if she were buried alive.

A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

can understand how a kindly, patriotic man like Hayes would be charmed by the prospect. I was as anxious for such a policy as Mr. Hayes. There has never been a moment since Lee surrendered that I would not have gone more than halfway to meet the Southern people in a spirit of conciliation. But they have never responded to it. They have not forgotten the war.

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

The prospect of experiencing pleasure was not worth the effort; he had no desire to experience pleasure.

Don't let your opportunities slip away.