Quotes About Opportunity

Learn to be in the right place at the right time and keep your own counsel.

He defended them because he believed that every social interest should have its chance.

Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my own cards. —Alton Richard

Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

offering you a hundred and eighty dollars, pure profit, and no worries.

So remember," said Mr. Kidswatter. "And please be careful! Always check to see if a door is open before going through it. And if it's not open, open it.

Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should make the most of it.

After all, you only have one life, so you should make the most of it.

not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

I am not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised with what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

the world is hard on ambitious girls

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

My idea is that if we girls have any influence we should use it for the good of these boys, and not pamper them up, making slaves of ourselves and tyrants of them. Let them prove what they can do and be before they ask anything of us, and give us a chance to do the same. Then we know where we are, and shall not make mistakes to mourn over all our lives.

Laurie liked her better for it, and found himself both admiring and respecting the brave patience that made the most of opportunity, and the cheerful spirit that covered poverty with flowers.

There is something of a congruence here between my grandfather's terror propelling him across an ocean to America and mine and my husband's rushing us into a three-room apartment in Jersey City. In fact, each of my moves is remotely connected to feeling my life or well-being was threatened.

I need a word, a sentence. The door is open. Go.

My suggestion is to err in getting what seems at present too much room rather than not enough.

He favored vocational training for blacks, not intellectual equality with whites.

Since Rockefeller believed in meritocracy, not aristocracy, he favored educational opportunities for minorities.

From the start, he owned more shares of Standard Oil than anybody else and exploited every opportunity to augment his stake.

What more can punish a man than to sit and groan as he contemplates what might have been!