Quotes About Opportunity

You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. In brief, for a low wage you substitute unemployment. You do harm all around, with no comparable compensation.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Find a need and fill it

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

The world is my lobster.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?… What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that…. The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have…. Live!

Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

Statesmen are not called upon only to settle easy questions. These often settle themselves. It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself.

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

It is often said that it is better to leave too early rather than too late, whether it is your professional career, a party, or life itself.

Se dice con frecuencia que más vale partir demasiado pronto que demasiado tarde, ya se trate de una carrera profesional, de una fiesta o de la vida misma.

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

The day is not over yet. You may still meet with Providence, who never gets up before noon.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men -- the balance wheel of the social machinery.

One cannot keep on evangelizing the world without interfering with the world's culture. It devolves upon God's people, therefore, to contend for such a society which will give the maximum opportunity for us to live wholly Christian lives and the maximum opportunity for others to become Christians.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.