Opportunity

Famous quotes containing the word opportunity:

“... the opportunity offered by life to women is far in excess of any offered to men. To be the inspiration is more than to be the tool. To create the world, a greater thing than to reform it.”
—Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)

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

“Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)