opportunities quotes

No duties, only opportunities.

-Anonymous
Motto of Princeton, N J, Institute for  Advanced Study. Quoted in Ed Regis Who Got Einstein's Office? (1988).

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.52,'Of Ceremonies and Respects'.

It seems to be typical of life in America, where opportunities, real and fancied, are thicker than anywhere else on the globe, that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

-James Arthur Baldwin
  Notes of a Native Son,'Notes of a Native Son'.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

-JohnWilliam Gardner
Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar1966.

During my lifetime I have dedicated my life to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideals of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hopeto live for, and toseerealized.But My Lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
  Speech in court, 20  Apr, when charged under the Suppression of Communism  Act and facing the death penalty.

A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.

-William Makepeace Thackeray
^8  Rebecca Sharp.Vanity Fair, ch.4.