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"A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history."
"Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue."
"Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity."
"Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you."
"Don't ever admit that the world has not given you an opportunity"
"Behind every adversity - is an opportunity!"
"From Christ on down to Edison, the men who have achieved most have been those who met with the most stubborn forms of temporary defeat. This would seem to justify the conclusion that Infinite Intelligence has a plan, or a law, by which it hurdles men over many obstacles before giving them the privilege of leadership or the opportunity to render useful service in a noteworthy fashion."
"To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all."
"I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others."
"Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge."
"Every day is a new opportunity to make your life a story worth telling."
"What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day."
"What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity."
"Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity."
"The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live. Today we stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place."
"A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man."
"If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table."
"The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it."
"Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education."
"We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation."
