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Quotes About Opportunity

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.
~ Alfred P. Sloan
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
~ Bayard Taylor
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
~ Samuel Smiles
We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to succeed as much as men.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.
~ Tony Robbins
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Anytime you can already have somebody in a pinning position where they can't kick out, what better than that for a brilliant man.
~ William Regal
The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.
~ Henry Ford
A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.
~ John Heywood
Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.
~ John Marston
...good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.
~ George S. Clason
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
~ Livy
It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.
~ Ludwig von Mises
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
~ Owen D. Young
My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.
~ Ronald Reagan
Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.
~ Samuel Smiles
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
~ Alcaeus
The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.
~ Appius Claudius Caecus
No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.
~ Arthur Hailey