Quotes About Opportunity

He said we lived in a provincial country, where every occasion was an opportunity for complaining, but meanwhile no one rolled up his sleeves and reorganized things, trying to make them function.

Acaso todo en ella era fruto del desorden de las ocasiones?

Disse que vivíamos num país provincianíssimo, onde toda ocasião era boa para se lamentar, mas enquanto isso ninguém arregaçava as mangas e reorganizava as coisas tentando fazê-las funcionar.

toda escolha tem sua história, muitos momentos de nossa vida estão espremidos num canto só esperando uma brecha, e no final essa brecha aparece.

Maybe there's no second time without a third, but there is a first time without a second.

My entire life would be reduced merely to a petty battle to change my social class.

We draw up lists of the good and the bad as if the many privileges deriving from chance aren't there: your place of birth, your family, the inequality of opportunities.

Nowhere is it written that you can't do it.

To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.

Estoy convencido de que el futuro de este país pertenece a los jóvenes de mi generación. •Gilberto Guevara Niebla, del CNH

One lives in the naive notion that "later" there will be more room than in the entire past.

Our age is so resolutely unheroic, and the employment opportunities for registered demigods are now so scarce, that all we can do, in our enfeebled state, is laugh with envy and disbelief at the memory of those who still had the wit and the wherewithal to live large.

One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come.

If you knew there was a beach where you could pick up gold nuggets like pebble stones, would you not go there? Go there.

Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Jeff sensed that he'd risen, that he was no longer someone who could be inconsequentially ignored. He sensed, too, that he was perceived as an opportunist and a carpetbagger.

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.