You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
Gary Ryan Blair

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Robert E. Lee

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
William Wordsworth

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Judy Garland

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn

The worst men often give the best advice.
Francis Bacon

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis Bacon

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank Zappa

Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.
Dane Cook

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Hippocrates

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.
Hippocrates

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
Eric Hoffer

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
Eric Hoffer

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffer

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
Eric Hoffer

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
Rose Kennedy

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
Victor Hugo