Anne Tyler

"I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get."

Anne Tyler, author

Jimmy Eat World

"Are you going to live your life standing in the back, looking around?
Are you going to waste your time?
You've got to make a move or you'll miss out."

- Jimmy Eat World, 'A Praise Chorus'

Demosthenes

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

- Demosthenes, Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens

Mary Shelley

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley, author, playwright

Abraham Lincoln

"I will prepare and someday my chance will come."

- Abraham Lincoln, former president of the USA

Theodore Roosevelt

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt, former president of the USA

Publilius Syrus

"Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last."

- Publilius Syrus, ancient Roman writer

Thomas Jefferson

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

- Thomas Jefferson, former president of the USA

Sara Teasdale

"I make the most of all that comes,
And the least of all that goes."

- Sara Teasdale, poet

Francis Bacon

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

- Francis Bacon, philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, author

Winston Churchill

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

- Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of Britain

Douglas MacArthur

"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity."

- Douglas MacArthur, American general

Charles R. Swindoll

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

- Charles R. Swindoll, American writer and clergyman

Thomas Edison

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

- Thomas Edison, inventor