“I ve got some bad news and I ve got some good news. Nothing lasts forever.”
“Opportunity, after all, is only another word for temptation.”
“No one remembers how you got a chance, they only remember what you did with it.”
“Stay alert at all times, alert to any opportunity for rest.”
“Opportunities are taken or created, never given.”
“It’s not about some principled debate as to whether I should focus on what I have, or on what I don’t have. Rather, it’s about being thankful that I have the privilege to enjoy the former, and the opportunity to contemplate the latter.”
“earn what you can since everything s for sale”
“The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!”
“Even locked doors can be unlocked in time.”
“Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door! They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed come no more. Awake! arise! the athlete s arm Loses its strength by too much rest; The fallow land, the untilled farm Produces only weeds at best.”
“Worries don t motivate us, they reduce our energy and opportunity to shine.”
“The fire in some people is burning and taking them places. Others have their fire dying slowly because their passion is dwindling. For some, the drive that kept them going is lost, and thus, has extinguished that fire that was once ablaze; they are now waiting for the next opportunity to ignite the fire in them one more time. Others are also at the point where the fire which was once in them has been totally quenched by a heavy rain rendering the source of fuel at their disposal void such that rekindling it becomes impossible. Remember, you are the problem and you are the solution to that problem whichever category you find yourself. Don t look anywhere else for answers as you are the answer to your problems. You ought to start to take steps to get back to the ladder where your flames of success will begin to rekindle. It s possible if only you believe.”
“Every setback is an opportunity to grow.”
“Meradinis! Turtle Island! It was a little corner of chaos! This was the scene the speeding black ship had left behind three days ago, fleeing in humiliating shame, those three days a constant running battle. For three days the accursed Imperial ship Indomitable had followed, firing on them at every opportunity. Death or imprisonment now awaited those who called themselves Corsairs – and though this death was now more certain rather than just a possibility, Sona Kilroy, or “The Hammer” as he was called by his men, was not prepared to give up his freedom so easily. Piracy was his life and he’d known no other. He was tough and cruel, a despicable man, a case in point when academics quoted the barbarism by which the Corsairs had made themselves known and feared across the star systems of the peaceful Terran Empire.”
“Time meant opportunity. After all, what more do we have than time? We measure it arbitrarily, but as we spend it, until it’s used up, it is called living.”
“The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most.”
“Opportunities don t happen, you create them”