Quotes About Opportunity

some people have more opportunity because they're born with it…

By the time I'm ready to get married I'll be ninety and then it'll be too late.

We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe - some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others - some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.

Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal.

You won't find better people than in New York.

The only way in which all men in America are equal, is in the courtroom - Atticus

rights for all, special privileges for none!",' I quoted.

But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court.

I was taught never to take advantage of anybody who was less fortunate than myself, whether he be less fortunate in brains, wealth, or social position; it meant anybody, not just Negroes.

everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

We know all men are not created equal in the sense that we believe - some people are smarter than others, some have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others - some people are more gifted beyond the normal scope of most men

The only thing in America that is still unique in this tired world is that a man can go as far as his brains will take him or he can go to hell if he wants to

hadn't taken anything from or off of anybody since they migrated to the New World.

The only thing in America that is still unique in this tired world is that a man can go as far as his brains will take him or he can go to hell if he wants to, but it won't be that way much longer.

Porque la única razón de ser viejo es empezar a vivir tarde

No trains went there—Maycomb Junction, a courtesy title, was located in Abbott County, twenty miles away. Bus service was erratic and seemed to go nowhere, but the Federal Government had forced a highway or two through the swamps, thus giving the citizens an opportunity for free egress. But few people took advantage of the roads, and why should they? If you did not want much, there was plenty.

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive.

Chance encounters are what keep us going.

We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it's gone forever.

Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred percent and go as far as I can. I'll take what I want and leave what I don't want. That's how I intend to live my life, and it things go bad, I'll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.

How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time? Tamaru asked. If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing. Have you read it? No, I haven't been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can't read the whole of Proust.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

However miserable your situation, there is always something to learn.