Quotes About Opportunity

Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them, but because they are either the only ones to which they have access, or the only ones which they are any longer capable of enjoying.

Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.

I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.

Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

Waiting your turn is often the worst way to get what you want.

Her tercih, bir baÅŸka tercihi engeller.

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.

My time is now.

Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.

New York in the '80s is not a bad place. If you can't make there, you can't make it anywhere.

From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

There's a lot of things great about life. But I thin tomorrow is the most important thing. It comes to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.

Black-birds fatten best in hard weather

È per noi che esiste l'università, per i diseredati del mondo. Non per gli studenti, non per la disinteressata ricerca della conoscenza, né per le altre ragioni che sentite dire. Quelle sono solo una copertura, come quei pochi individui normali, idonei al mondo, che di tanto in tanto accogliamo tra noi. Ma è tutto fumo negli occhi.

Do they know that before us lies a road at the end of which is either death or greatness? The two words go around in my head, around and around, until it seems they are the same.

Everybody gets to play.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it again?

Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.

Byla to zemÄ›, na které mohl ?lovÄ›k pracovat a vzdÄ›lávat ji a stále v ní nachdádzet budoucnost.