Quotes About Opportunity

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

There's place and means for every man alive.

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

I believe the declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.

Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.

You might think you see a lucky man who made the grade.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.

It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.

I think all women in all industries have more obstacles than men.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Chances rule men and not men chances.

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?

I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.

Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

The tide tarrieth no man.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?