Quotes about Opportunity

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow...I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that would bury the Government and your liberty in the same hopeless grave. This is your golden opportunity.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

The greatest inhumanity that can be ascribed to men is having an opportunity for doing good to others and doing nothing. The serious sin is not always one of commission, but omission.

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls.

I didn't even go to college. I wish I did.

The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.

There are a lot of directors I'd still love to work with. Paul Thomas Anderson is someone I'd love to work with. I think Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is very talented. Ang Lee is very talented. I mean, there are a lot of people. There are many great directors out there.

I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing.

Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet do not use it.