Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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 B. C. Forbes
The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself looked it full in the face and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you...
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
