Opportunity

Famous quotes containing the word opportunity:

    Those words freedom and opportunity do not mean a license to climb upwards by pushing other people down. Any paternalistic system that tries to provide for security for everyone from above only calls for an impossible task and a regimentation utterly uncongenial to the spirit of our people.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.
    Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 38:24.

    There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)