Quotes about Opportunity
Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.
— Napoleon Hill
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
— Napoleon Hill
Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory in this way, but the moment the study are in insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.
— Frank Herbert
Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.
— Jimmy Carter
We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.
— Elizabeth George
A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.
— John F. Kennedy
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
— George Eliot
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.
— John F. Kennedy
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
— Thomas Jefferson
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson