Quotes about Opportunity

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the very outset of my life freedom, and freedom is everything.

When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.2

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

For life is too short to be little.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

I often think if I had known these things sooner, how different my business would be today.

There is no limit to what a man can do, or where he can go, if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Nothing less than life in the steps of Christ is adequate to the human soul or the needs of our world. Any other offer fails to do justice to the drama of human redemption, deprives the hearer of life's greatest opportunity, and abandons this present life to the evil powers of the age.

We do have an invitation to be a part of it, but if we refuse we only hurt ourselves.