Quotes about Opportunity
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us
- Samuel Johnson
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- Samuel Johnson
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!
- Samuel Johnson
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
- Samuel Johnson
The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.
- CS Lewis
Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.
- Michael Smith
God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.
- Joel Osteen
Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history
- Brian Tracy
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
- John Donne
Iran . . . has failed to take the opportunity to demonstrate that its nuclear program is peaceful . . . time is not unlimited.
- Barack Obama