Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly is the only way to meet supreme opportunities when they come whether open-faced or disguised.
I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.
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Stanley Baldwin
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Francis Bacon
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment – that which they cannot anticipate.
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Sun Tzu
We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many.
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Francine Rivers
You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.
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Mark Batterson
More Quotes By Maltbie D. Babcock
Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
A day dawns quite like other days in it a single hour comes quite like other hours but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong How hard the battle goes the day how long Faint not-fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly is the only way to meet supreme opportunities when they come whether open-faced or disguised.
Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.
