Quotes About Opportunity

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

In my opinion it is unwise to judge a young man by his school record. We have too many examples of bad students becoming distinguished men, and, on the other hand, of brilliant students not being at all remarkable in life.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

We are moving forward to greater freedom, to greater security for the average man than he has ever known before in the history of America.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

Good government should maintain the balance where every individual may have a place if he will take it, where every individual may find safety if he wishes it, where every individual may attain such power as his ability permits, consistent with his assuming the accompanying responsibility.

Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.

In the olden days, big houses in New York impeded creativity—editing, printing, distributing a handful of volumes each year. If a writer somehow failed to catch the fancy of a New York publisher, she was consigned to irrelevance. Amazon disrupted the hell out of that arrangement. Anyone with a novel in a desk drawer could publish directly to Amazon.

The best you get is an even break.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

The masses, however, have no intention of looking on as the chances of individual success improve.

It is not uncommon in the church for us to urge each other to witness to our faith and sometimes we do so as though it were easy to do. It is not. Our faith is so profoundly intimate and important that we draw our breath in pain to tell the story of our faith in God. And to find the appropriate word to speak even to a receptive mind is difficult. Especially if the opportunity that presents itself comes as a total surprise.

Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away.

If I can make it there, I'm gonna make it anywhere,It's up to you, New York, New York.