Quotations and Poems

» “If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.”
– James Allen

»  ”You can’t always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager’s got some sphere of autonomy. Don’t pass the buck up the line.”
– Bob Anderson

»  ”I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization”
– Detronius Arbiter

»  ”Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.”
– Jane Austen

»  ”A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
– Francis Bacon

»  ”Opportunity makes a thief.”
– Francis Bacon

»  ”Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.”
– Bruce Barton

»  ”Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers’ reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.”
– Lucy Benington

»  ”If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle

»  ”Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction”
– Best of Bits and Pieces

»  ”Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”
– Richard Branson

»  ”Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

»  ”Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

»  ”Today’s opportunities erase yesterday’s failures.”
– Gene Brown

»  ”If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.”
– Les Brown

»  ”Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.”
– Warren Buffett

»  ”You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.”
– Warren Buffett

»  ”The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
– John Burroughs

»  ”When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.”
– Eileen Caddy

»  ”This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.”
– Al Capone

»  ”Talent alone won’t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: ”Are your ready?””
– Johnny Carson

»  ”Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.”
– Paul Cezanne

»  ”Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.”
– Roy D. Chapin Jr.

»  ”The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.”
– Edwin Hubbel Chapin

»  ”The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
– Winston Churchill

»  ”Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.”
– Jeremy Collier

»  ”As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!”
– Robert Collier

»  ”Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.”
– Robert Collier

»  ”You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.”
– Robert Collier

»  ”Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

»  ”Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

»  ”Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.”
– Russel H. Conwell

»  ”Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it’s too late.”
– Rita Coolidge

»  ”The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.”
– William Taylor Copeland

»  ”There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.”
– George W. Crane

»  ”Make the iron hot by striking it.”
– Oliver Cromwell

»  ”Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
– Demosthenes

»  ”Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.”
– Emily Dickinson

»  ”Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

»  ”A good deal happens in a man’s life that he isn’t responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such ”breaks” are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.”
– Lawrence Downs

»  ”Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!”
– John Dryden

»  ”There is far more opportunity than there is ability.”
– Thomas A. Edison

»  ”Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas A. Edison

»  ”Every wall is a door.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

»  ”If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

»  ”Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

»  ”Be an opener of doors.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

»  ”The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don’t give a second thought to the chances we take.”
– Gloria Estefan

»  ”Little opportunities should be improved.”
– Francois F