Pittacus of Mytilene Quotes

Know your opportunity.

Know thine opportunity.

Seize opportunity by the forelock and see where it leads you.

Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.

You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Look for your opportunities.

It takes skill to benefit from luck.

You never know when your time is going to come, if it's going to come, so when it does, you have to take advantage of it.

You have to catch the breaks.