Quotes About Opportunity

Again, a few generations ago an American workman could have saved money, gone West and taken up a homestead. Now the free lands were gone. In earlier days a man who began with pick and shovel might have come to own a mine. That outlet too was now closed, as regards the immense majority, and few, if any, of the one hundred and fifty thousand mine workers could ever aspire to enter the small circle of men who held in their grasp the great anthracite industry.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not the great occasion, you don't get the great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in times of peace, no one would know his name now.

Fate ciò che potete, con ciò che avete, dove siete.

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Lives not fully lived are the worst kinds of stewardship.

It's likely that every day presents an opportunity for you to practice radical hospitality to someone with whom you cross paths. There is no shortage of people who could use the fit of a caring, welcoming person in their life. How awesome would it be if, in a time of need, the first thing people would say is, "I need a Christian!" If you expect to be that person, you'll be surprised at how often the opportunities come along for you to show love through radical hospitality.

Being an investment banker has given me a front row seat at the center of innovation

Remember that lost time does not return.

O that we had spent but one day in this world thoroughly well!

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Time is what we want most, but what alas! we use worst. – William Penn

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?

Though true repentance be never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

Bob thought that perhaps there was opportunity on the boundary between being awake and asleep.

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

So here hath been dawningAnother blue Day:Think wilt thou let itSlip useless away.