Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it
Sometimes I just have a chance to go forward, so of course I try to make the most of it.
Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.
Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
I want to seize fate by the throat.
The courage to receive time's mightiest dream.
I feel if an opportunity comes your way, you should not let it go.
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
