Making the Most of Opportunities Quotes

Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

It is better to start doing what one has to late than not at all.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Fred VanVleet's story - here's a kid who's not very fast, not very tall, undrafted, had every excuse to not make it big and here he is and he's gonna be one of the top free agents.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.

I am not an adventurer or a writer, I am a person who thinks life is too short and if there is something you fancy doing you should have a go and see how far you get.