Quotes About Opportunity

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering.

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip.

Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.

My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

Theres a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

White men make up 30% of America but they hold 70% of the board seats.

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.