Quotes About Opportunity

Books are a great equalizer. You may not have the money to travel the world, but with a library card as your passport your horizons for exploration and self-discovery are unlimited.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation's slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).

Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free.

Following along the path of her role models, Shirley knew that if she waited for permission, she'd never receive her turn.

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don't try. – Beverley Sills

An opportunity only knocks once. The next one may be better or worse, but never the same one. That is why it is so crucial to make the right decision at the right time. A right decision at the wrong time becomes a wrong decision.

As a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper editors who said he had no talent. One day a minister at a church hired him to draw some cartoons. Disney was working out of a small rodent-infested shed near the church. Seeing a small mouse inspired him to draw a new cartoon. That was the start of Mickey Mouse.

An opportunity only knocks once. The next one may be better or worse, but never the same one. That is why it is so crucial to make the right decision at the right time. A

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start anew." In spite of disaster, three weeks later, he invented the phonograph. What an attitude!

Opportunity is always under our feet. We don't have to go anywhere. All we need to do is recognize it. When people don't know how to recognize opportunity, they complain of noise when it knocks. The same opportunity never knocks twice. The next one may be better or worse, but it is never the same one.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryan

This life is a one-way street.

Courtship is the time during which the girl decides whether or not she can do any better. Anonymous

Don\'t wait for the right conditions. All you need for your growth is available to you in this moment

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

Ein System war wirklich am Ende, wenn es nicht einmal seinen Kriminellen eine Zukunft bot.

A failure is just the wrong way of looking at a missed opportunity!!!

At times you don't have enough time to live and regret a wrong split second decision!!!!

Everyone has a different finger print.... Not to distinguish onself , but to give us an equal opportunity to leave a mark on the world.