John Dryden Quotes

Let the path be open to talent.

If you have the talent, you should have the opportunity.

Anyone can achieve it if they're given the opportunity to.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

In a country where there is no privileged class, genius and industry may attain the highest honors.

Just because someone doesn't have a silver spoon in their mouth doesn't mean they can't be highly intelligent.

No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not connected to power, you have a chance in this country to go as far as your talent and your work will take you.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.

We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege.

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

Ability is sexless.

I like potential in people. If I find someone who has lot of potential and can do something with life, then I don't see bank balance, which family he comes from, or his religion.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

A person should not have a second class life because he chose the wrong parents.

... there shall be no differences save by merit of character, by merit of ability, by merit of service to country. Those are the true tests of the value of any man or woman, white or coloured ...

My ability matches the national moment.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.