Quotes About Opportunity

While the heart beats, bruise it--it is your only opportunity

what is opportunity to a man who can't use it.

For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an ardent outset may be followed by declension; latent powers may find their long-awaited opportunity; a past error may urge a grand retrieval.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an 'appointment') which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?

Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.

For power finds its place in lack of power;               Advance

I wouldn't make a downright lawyer o' the lad,—I should be sorry for him to be a raskill,—but a sort o' engineer, or a surveyor, or an auctioneer and vallyer, like Riley, or one o' them smartish businesses as are all profits and no outlay, only for a big watch-chain and a high stool.

One can begin so many things with a new person!— even begin to be a better man.

The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.

I should see how it was possible to lead a grand life here—now—in England.

Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in.

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

It's never too late to be what you might have been.--

Choice is the strongest principle of growth.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

What is taxation? Taxation is what you pay to live in a civilized society- what you pay to have democracy and opportunity.

start with values, preferably values all Americans share such as security, prosperity, opportunity, freedom

To get a sense of how equality is contested in politics, consider the constant struggle between liberals and conservatives over what equality means: equality of opportunity versus equality of outcome. Conservatives

President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1965 speech at the Howard University commencement: It is not enough to open the gates of opportunity; all our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates … . We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result … . To this end equal opportunity is essential, but not enough, not enough.8 Because

Myth 7: Everyone Can Pull Himself or Herself Up by the Bootstraps.

Affirmative action is about fairness, for redressing widespread unfairness. Conservatives

Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.