There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Think new thoughts. Grab life with both hands, take opportunities you have, & create the ones you need.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
If you don't succeed on your own ground, then there's no reason to succeed. Unless, of course, you really want a boat. If you're a person who feels that with a yacht, everything will be all right, then you should do whatever you have to and get the yacht.
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.