Quotes about Prospect
Danger is opportunity's seer.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you are in a situation where you can turn an opportunity into something great, grab that chance.
— Jack Canfield
The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.
— Henry Ford
And looking ahead, the prospect of her life made her feel as if she were buried alive.
— DH Lawrence
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.
— Livy
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.
— James Madison
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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.
— Victor Hugo
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
— Napoleon Hill
The prospect of experiencing pleasure was not worth the effort; he had no desire to experience pleasure.
— Ayn Rand
Don't let your opportunities slip away.
— Mike Evans