Quotes about Opportunity
Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of what you need to do
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.
- 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
- 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
moss; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay while the sun shines; 'T is hard to carry
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson