Quotes About Opportunity

To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America.

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.

Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do a rewrite on a script, it's always the big boys going, "Mm, let's go with [a man]..."

I like to enjoy life, I like to engage in life, so I would say I'm a yes man.

I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.

And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!

I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling.

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.