Quotes About Opportunity

Health care for all, absolutely. But to create a healthy society, we also need to end poverty and provide decent-paying jobs for all people. We need a strong educational system, a clean environment, and equal opportunity for everyone regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or nationality. These, in fact, are all health-related issues.

There is no real freedom without economic justice.

if a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.

Die da alt sind, hör ich, haben nichts zu hoffen Denn nur Zeit schafft's, und an Zeit gebricht's. Doch uns Jungen, hör ich, steht das Tor weit offen Freilich, hör ich, steht es offen nur ins Nichts.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

When sharing your news, you might come across some disgruntled parent-folk. You know, the kind who snort and say ruefully, "If there's anyplace you want to travel to, go now." Don't let them squelch your joy, dear K: these are the kind of people who never went anywhere before they had babies either.

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

Look," she said, smiling out at the trees, the sky, and the birds flying by. "That's life out there. See how it's movin'? Even the leaves on the trees is movin'. Life don't wait for nobody, and even as special as you are, it ain't gonna wait for you, neither. So it's time to make up your mind that you're gonna join it.

Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you've got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

Life is full of what-ifs. You can't let it hold you back. If you do, you're not really living at all . . . just kind of going through the motions with no meaning.

Life is full of what-ifs. You can't let it hold you back.

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

That is like deciding that you shouldn't take a Spanish class because you don't already speak the language.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Why should women accept this picture of a half-life, instead of a share in the whole of human destiny?

liked her even if he hadn't loved her; possibly, if Nelissa hadn't suddenly become available

One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is four or five big days that change everything.