Quotes About Opportunity

My grandparents and my parents came over from Cuba with nothing to their name just for a chance of freedom and opportunity.

We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.

My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.

They didn't have a lot, but my grandparents taught me the important stuff: that hard work and character, matter. When I got my acceptance (and scholarship) to college, it felt like a dream come true.

Not everyone is granted the opportunity that each of us deserves: to fulfill our God-given potential.

I have been playing for England since I was 18, and while I wouldn't say I took it all for granted, it just seemed to be a part of my season - to play for Arsenal and to play for England.

I don't take anything for granted. There are 500 other girls right behind me. And I know that, because I was one of them.

I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted.

I've been amazingly lucky, and believe me, I don't take anything for granted.

The Tamil audience has accepted me and given me a place to establish myself. I'm not taking things for granted... I've learnt the language.

Chances have been taken, opportunities granted, and because of such, I find myself in a position where some of my biggest dreams are in arm's reach.

You don't get this opportunity many times in life to compete against the best in the world every night. I certainly didn't expect to have 10 or 11 years of chances at it, so I don't want to take that for granted.

You've got to put the work in every week. You can't take anything for granted.

When I was young at Arsenal, you take it for granted, playing all the time.

I wasn't granted the opportunity to fight some of the best guys in the world. And that was something that was not on my end by any sense of the imagination.

I look back at all the contracts I've had, and I never assumed I would get another one. Honestly. I don't take anything for granted. Nothing.

I think it can be easy at a certain point to take it for granted that you can kind of perform whatever you want.

When I get out on the field, you see me laughing so much because it's a dream come true. A lot of people wish they could do what I do, or wish they had an opportunity to do what I do. But not everybody's granted opportunity. I was, so I'm taking full advantage of it.

Bollywood is a dream come true for me and I am not going to take anything for granted, that's for sure.

I go to play for Congo now and it's a reality check. You see how it is for some people and you don't take things for granted. A lot of the people in Congo, to get the opportunity that I have had, I don't know what they'd do.

Money grants you freedom, I guess.

I didn't really enjoy being at college, because I was putting myself through college. We just didn't have the money. I was responsible for that, so I was constantly looking for scholarships, grants, and work-study opportunities.

I was clear about the fact that my first film should be 'big,' since it's the start of your whole career graph.