“It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity.”
Quoted in "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire" - Page 754 - by John Toland - History - 2003.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Yoshijirō Umezu6
Japanese general 1882–1949Related quotes
“While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 185
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.”
Elizabeth Berg (1948) American novelist
Source: The Year of Pleasures
“We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.”
Shunroku Hata (1879–1962) Japanese general
Quoted in "Enter Japan" - "Time Magazine" article - July 8, 1940
“The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask.”
John Smith (1938–1994) Labour Party leader from Scotland (1938-1994)
Speech to Labour Party fund-raising dinner, 11 May 1994 (the night before his death).
“The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.”
Robert Orben (1928) American magician and writer
Marianne Means (September 26, 1986) "I Just Flew In From The White House - And, Boy, Are My Arms Tired", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p. A10.
