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Letter "O" » Opportunity
"Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find:
Occasion once past by, is bald behind."
Author: Abraham Cowley
About: Opportunity
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work."
Author: Abraham Cowley
About: Opportunity
"Oh, ship ahoy!" rang out the cry;
"Oh, give us water or we die!"
A voice came o'er the waters far,
"Just drop your bucket where you are."
And then they dipped and drank their fill
Of water fresh from mead and hill;
And then they knew they sailed upon
The broad mouth of the Amazon."
Author: Sam Walter Foss
About: Opportunity
"Seek not for fresher founts afar,
Just drop your bucket where you are;
And while the ship right onward leaps,
Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps.
Parch not your life with dry despair;
The stream of hope flow everywhere–
So under every sky and star,
Just drop your bucket where you are."
Author: Sam Walter Foss
About: Opportunity
"Yet he who grasps the moment's gift,
He is the proper man.
[Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,
Das ist der rechte Mann.]"
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
About: Opportunity
"Man's extremity is God's opportunity."
Author: John Hamilton, Lord Belhaven
About: Opportunity
"I beseech you not to blame me if I be desirous to strike while
the iron is hot."
Author: Sir Edward Hoby
About: Opportunity
"Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
[Lat., Rapiamus, amici,
Occasionem de die.]"
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
About: Opportunity
"The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks
at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door,
and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The
world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases
can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually
smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him
forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have
to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can
get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity
does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves
that they are alive."
Author: Elbert Hubbard
About: Opportunity
"I knock unbidden once at every gate–
If sleeping, wake–if feasting, rise before
I turn away–it is the hour of fate,
And they who follow me reach every state
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate,
Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
Seek me in vain and uselessly implore,
I answer not, and I return no more."
Author: John James Ingalls
About: Opportunity
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