Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
Keep your chin up, and don't go to the funeral - mine or yours or your loved one's - until the day of the funeral because then you miss the life that you have left.
When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow.
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.
Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.
I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
In any field, when an opportunity arises, one mustn't let it go.
Tomorrow is no man's gift.
We should all start to live before we get too old.
Opportunity only knocks so many times.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
You don't get many chances in the world, and you don't want to throw them away.
You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up.
There are always opportunities one cannot pass up.
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.
Of Senegalese Origin
You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.
After the cancer-free diagnosis, I thought I'd go off and do the things I never did in my teens and twenties. I realised putting things off in life can be dangerous because suddenly you can find you've run out of time.
Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.
Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.
