Quotes about Opportunity

It is better to learn late than never.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Every wall is a door.

Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.