Quotes About Opportunity

The possibilities are endless now, with performing, getting your music online, getting your own website and getting your music out there. I think that's very cool and amazing.

Delay always breeds danger.

Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind.

There is a use for everyone.

Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances.

Though I knew that actually I had heard no voice, I could not dismiss the possibility that it had spoken and I had failed to hear it because of some deficiency in me or something wrong that I had done….I decided that I had better accept the call that had not come, just in case it had come and I had missed it.

The future was coming to me, but I had not so much as lifted a foot to go to it.

The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field

You never know, life is short but it's wide

I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this idea that I was limited to any one thing, and so I think in terms of what's possible, not impossible.

There had been virtually no opposition, but three years of almost continuous action had taught Gerhard how, in times like this, the greatest danger was complacency.

Evil report, with time and chance to help it, travels patiently, and travels far.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity. A

Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity. A society

Nothing is lost in history: sooner or later every creative idea finds opportunity and development, and adds its color to the flame of life.

Inheritance added superior opportunity to superior possessions, and stratified once homogeneous societies into a maze of classes and castes.

Democracy means perfect equality of opportunity, especially in education; not the rotation of every Tom, Dick and Harry in public office.

Forget mistakes, forget failures, forget everything, except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

the only difference in motive between the rich man and ourselves is seldom a difference in scruples, but is usually a difference in opportunity and skill.

to inherit or develop standards of excellence and taste. As this majority grows it acts as a cultural drag upon the minority; its ways of speech, dress, recreation, feeling, judgment, and thought spread upward, and internal barbarization by the majority is part of the price that the minority pays for its control of educational and economic opportunity.

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We have inherited an easy life in Canada. A life of calm. It is freedom of a lazy sort, a freedom so pervasive we barely notice it, and one that we claim by virtue of our citizenship. But it is also worth remembering that people -- in the words of Bulgarian-born Canadian philanthropist Ignat Kaneff -- 'crawl across minefields to get here.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.