Quotes About Opportunity

Wherever you've been, and whatever you've done so far, your entire life was building up to this moment. Now is the time to burst forth into your greatness—a greatness you could never have achieved without going through exactly the things you've gone through.

Are our education and economic policies a prescription for economic growth for any but a few?

What appears like a problem is merely a place where a miracle awaits.

Cada reto es una oportunidad…para que se produzca un milagro.

That's why they can't get ahead. Wouldn't look for work, just living like they still slaves. Sitting down on they backside talking 'bout slavery, slavery. Everything for them is slavery and white man fault. Blaming slavery when is they own laziness causing they problems, with they no-ambition selves. Still taking what massa give them and calling it welfare." Margaret

It wasn`t very useful preparation for the real world: turning all these graduates loose every year with the expectation that life will be fair and everyone will be treated equally.

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together

I told you you might have a very different life from mine, and from the life you've had with me, and that would be a wonderful thing, there are many ways to live a good life.

If we educate them well, we give them the means to create a future that we cannot anticipate. If we cheat them, they will have the relatively meager future we have prepared for them.

Inequality is catching.

In this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.

That's like bringing a guy up from the minors to pitch the World Series.

This country has been good to me.

The Don sighed. "Well, then I can't talk to you about how you should behave. Don't you want to finish school, don't you want to be a lawyer? Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.

Like any other parent he wanted his children to go to better schools and mix with better companions

el dinero abre todas las puertas y que ni siquiera los prejuicios raciales se le resisten

la educación era indispensable y debía ser financiada

La igualdad ante la ley y la igualdad de oportunidades no significan la igualdad en los ingresos y en la renta

Por esa razón es tan importante, para el liberalismo, ofrecer a todos los jóvenes un sistema educativo de alto nivel que asegure en cada generación un punto de partida común, que permita luego las legítimas diferencias de ingreso de acuerdo al talento, al esfuerzo y al servicio que cada ciudadano presta a la comunidad.

Besides, what Dominican woman wouldn't like to be the First Lady?

People don't realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.

Millions of people walked through their lives numb, dying to feel something, to feel alive. To be chosen by Cordova for a film was an opportunity for just that, not simply for fame and fortune, but to leave their old selves behind like discarded clothes.

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE LIVED BADLY

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.