Quotes About Opportunity

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

Push yourself out of your comfort zone and see what you are really capable of.

Because if there is one simple, single lesson I can impart to you, it's this: Don't waste time, because you don't have any time to waste.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.

Un golpe de suerte no es más que la raíz de la siguiente preocupación.

Iranian high school students learned how to draw microscopes and how to write letter-perfect descriptions of the way in which microscopes worked, but the microscopes in Iranian schools usually remained locked up as property too valuable to be put in students' hands. The

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

Hoy, en plena primavera, dejo abierta la puerta de la jaula al pobre pájaro azul.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

G]ood and evil comes in all shades and colors... evil is not prejudiced.... evil just needs an opportunity to work through you.... All of us, no matter what we look like, we all have a common enemy, and that is evil. If we don't understand that and come together, then evil will win.

In 1994 the median net worth of whites was $94,500, compared with $19,000 for people of color. By 2005 white median income increased 48% (to $140,500), compared with nonwhite median income, which increased only 31% (to $24,900).

As far as my career or my university or my hometown went, I was on the bus out of town at the right time because I knew to walk away before I was pushed out.

Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.

where we start in life doesn't define who we will become.

Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,Where there aren't no Ten Commandments, an' a man can raise a thirst.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?