Quotes About Opportunity

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.

There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

Pension never inriched young man. [Pension never enriched a young man.]

ThereÂ's no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that heÂ's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

Every man is the maker of his own fortune

...even though you said yes to the wrong man, I hope that won't cause you to say no to the right one.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?