Quotes About Opportunity

The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.

In America, your ancestors don't matter so much. You're just you .

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The Person who risks nothing, has nothing and becomes nothing.

Only one who risks is free.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

pay somebody to go to school for me.

Education is about the distribution of knowledge... and to whom we actually distribute this particular commodity is a major question in this country.

CHILDREN FIRST. GROW WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED. SUCCESS COMES IN CANS, NOT CANNOTS.

Your whole life has been a long road leading directly to this moment

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

Luck is where hard work meets opportunity.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay

If you up your skill and take more chances, your odds of success increase.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

If members of the elite come to think that their privilege was historically justified and earned, it will be hard to persuade them to yield opportunity to others.

I forgot that I owed my success partly to the advantages of my birth and environment. . . . Now, however, I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.40

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With all the other educational crises plaguing American schools these days, why, people ask, should we focus on children who seem better able than other students to fend for themselves? People believe these children have it easy.