Quotes About Opportunity

As a Black woman you do have to work harder for everything. The world is not going to hand you things.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.

I want Latinos to be seen as the hard-working people that we are. We'll take the hardest jobs that no one wants to take, and we'll do them with dignity.

We wanted to come to London because it's the hardest place to make it.

I tell anyone who is willing to listen that auditioning is the hardest part. Once you get the job, you have the job. You can go to work. You learn your lines. You learn your character. With auditioning, you can have five in a week with different people.

Sometimes the hardest part of the stage is right at the beginning. The other teams will leave it to us to chase down a breakaway, and we can't allow a big group to go up the road - anything more than four riders is trouble.

You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it.

For me to even think about attending a college or university would have been a real financial hardship. It would not have happened. That basketball scholarship changed my life.

My parents did not come to the U.S. with much; they had a lot of hardship.

Among the difficulties I encountered, economic problems were the worst. I found that financial hardships could limit one's ability to realize one's dream, no matter how desperate and earnest you are.

Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware.

I celebrate my hardworking parents and all the opportunities they gave me.

Everyone in Tollywood is so hardworking and professional. If I get an offer, I would definitely take it up.

Missourians are a hardworking people. They want good, quality jobs.

You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, 'That is absolutely a lie.'

I've been able to provide for my family, move out of Harlem and travel the world.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time.

I credit a lot of my success to being from Harlem, growing up there.

Globalisation, for me, seems to be not first-order harm, and I find it very hard not to think about the billion people who have been dragged out of poverty as a result.

I am no more young. So there is no harm in playing an elderly role.

I don't want to play the lead and look like a hero. I am open to do character roles; what is the harm in it?