Boris Pasternak Quotes

Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.

When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.

It's the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it's high time you joined in the dance.

It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.

He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.

I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.

A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

One thing I'm afraid of is not taking advantage of opportunities. I feel like these are kind of gifts.

Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I’m glad I did'?

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.

Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.

Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.

In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

Often people think opportunity is a matter of luck. I believe opportunities are all around us. Some seize it. Others stand and let it pass by.

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.