They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they ca…

John Stuart Mill
207 citations
They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time. ✨ John Stuart Mill (1867). Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867, p.47
Time
14

More Author Quotes

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as … ▶
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality ✨ John Stuart Mill (1870). Utilitarianism, p.25
The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but those abounding in knowledge and disciplined in intel … ▶
Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formi … ▶
A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in a … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes