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- Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), British microbioligist who discovered penicillin.
Never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be -- usually is, in fact -- a false alarm that leads to nothing, but it may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.
- Jack London
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.
- Danish proverb
Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British Prime Minister
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
- Maltbie Babcock (1858-1901) American Presbyterian Minister
A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
- Louis L'Amour, author
Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody else would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them up and hog-tie them.
- Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967) American Industrialist
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
- Grenville Kleiser (1868-1953) American Author
To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities.
- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) American Politician, Religious Advocate
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
- Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-1747) French Essayist
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- Mary Jean Iron
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are... Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in my pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.
- Charles Victor Cherbuliez (1829-1899) French Novelist
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of
uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
- Joe Kapp, American football player and coach
They say football is America's greatest game, but it's not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a great expression of it.
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