Quotes About Opportunity

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.

Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.

He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.

Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.

There is a tide in the affairs of men