Quotes about Opportunity

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

LinkedIn allows professionals, including the middle class, to invest in themselves in order to find the right jobs. That essentially can help make them prosperous.

I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you're so protected and isolated.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

You were brought up to work — not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut — go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him — whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling interests, that the Pacific Coast and, indeed, the whole of our territory west of the Rocky Mountains, should speedily be filled up by a hardy and patriotic population.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

If a door is shut, go up and wiggle it a little - don't assume it's locked.