Quotes About Opportunity

But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.

This is the team that when you look at it, you say, 'This is our time.

I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, "Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie." What am I going to say, no? So I did it.

Education liberates a woman.

We're always living days we can never get back. So we make new ones. That's all.

We're always living days we can never get back," I say. "So we make new ones. That's all.

A man can lose his life falling off a mountain or falling off a hill. In the end it will not matter how he died, but how he lived. The important thing is to grab the life you can and make the most of it. - Gold Mountain

Never quit, we are always 3 feet from Gold.

But it is well to always remember that you have options, precisely as you did before your gift broke through.

As long as we draw breath, we have the option to change what we don't like.

You must welcome bounty whenever it comes, hunti man. It is often inconvenient. But if you insist on accepting it only when it suits your schedule, you will find yourself very poor.

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time.

You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.

What he did know was that the only way to get from nowhere to somewhere was to believe in yourself and take a chance.

It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.

For the young, life is an opportunity; for the old life is a journey.

Youths out of school and without jobs is considered an economic issue but it's also social and security issue.

It suddenly seemed like a huge conspiracy to keep women in their thirties—when you finally have some brains and some skills and experience—from doing anything useful with them at all.

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.

opportunity for me to catch up.' As far as Abbey could tell, her mother spent a lot of her free time praying,

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

You will be far more likely to receive racial preferences than to suffer racial discrimination.