Quotes About Opportunity

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.

As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

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

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.

It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.

If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it.