It is my right to be uncommon … if I can; I seek opportunity … not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stole calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself; enjoy the benefits of my creations and to face the world boldly and say ?This I have done and this is what it means to be an American.?
I dont know anything about luck. Ive never banked on it and Im afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isnt.
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity not to become equal but to become different to realize whatever unique potential of body mind and spirit he or she possesses.
In a free society every opportunity comes with three obligations. First you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact it does.
I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain have I tried to step beyond what bound me. Despite my years I am still trying.
We have a problem for those who advocate competitive equality of opportunity: the prizes won in the competitions of the first generation will tend to defeat the requirements of equality of opportunity for the next.
The more you seek security the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
A man must make his opportunity as oft as find it.
Where one door shuts another opens.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
I have known many who could not when they would for they had not done it when they could.
The more the years go by the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything then nothing can happen.
It is my right to be uncommon … if I can; I seek opportunity … not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stole calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect proud and unafraid; to think and act for myself; enjoy the benefits of my creations and to face the world boldly and say ?This I have done and this is what it means to be an American.?
Why not seize the pleasure at once how often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparations.
I dont know anything about luck. Ive never banked on it and Im afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isnt.
If opportunity doesnt knock build a door.
OPPORTUNITY n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Three rules of work: (1) Out of clutter find simplicity; (2) From discord find harmony; (3) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity not to become equal but to become different to realize whatever unique potential of body mind and spirit he or she possesses.
A series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
In a free society every opportunity comes with three obligations. First you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact it does.
When you are an anvil hold you still; when you are a hammer strike your fill.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain have I tried to step beyond what bound me. Despite my years I am still trying.
While we stop to think we often miss our opportunity.
People think that at the top there isnt much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
We have a problem for those who advocate competitive equality of opportunity: the prizes won in the competitions of the first generation will tend to defeat the requirements of equality of opportunity for the next.
The more you seek security the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
There is no security in life only opportunity.
Even when opportunity knocks a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
A man who misses his opportunity and monkey who misses his branch cannot be saved.