Quotes About Opportunity

Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.

Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.

America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.

I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

A great man may commence life in a hovel.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man's face would make you think of it but his hope might, his courage might.