Quotes About Opportunity

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen.

In America, any boy may become president, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not one jot. The possibility is always there.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too."

When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ... By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it a full two inches closer to second base. He figured that this improved his chances for a steal, or for reaching second base safely on a hit.

Seize time by the forelock.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

I don't gamble. I invest with a risk.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life . . . and you messed it up again.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.

Westward, Ho!

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

She was not a woman likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.