Quotes About Opportunity

The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.

Whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera, and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.

When I was very young, I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too, that I didn't show more promise at it, or I might have been an automobile dealer.

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.

Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways; but even if it won't do those things, it remains the least constrained society on earth.

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

America - the best poor man's country in the world.

America is a country of young men.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Most people are afraid of failing. I think there's nothing wrong in failing.

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They are more afraid of life than death.