Quotes about Opportunity
The modern slave trader assures himself (or herself) that the desperate people are better off earning one dollar a day than no dollars at all, and that they are receiving the opportunity to become integrated into the larger world community.
— John Perkins
The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.
— John Wooden
Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
— John Wooden
Don't be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is not to act when action is needed.
— John Wooden
when coaches or parents make consistency their foundation, everyone around them becomes more comfortable and everyone around them has a greater opportunity to grow.
— John Wooden
Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
— John Wooden
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out
— John Wooden
school. I never tried to talk a student into coming to UCLA. I tried to show him what was there and what to expect, and I never told him he was going to play; I told him he would have the opportunity to play, and if he was good enough, then he'd be able to. Rosy forecasts during the "courtship" of a player can only lead to disappointment and distrust if anything fails to meet that student's expectations.
— John Wooden
My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'
— Michael Jordan
It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
— George Eliot
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.
— Thomas Jefferson
Fear is not always a sin but it always is an opportunity.
— Mark Driscoll