Quotes About Opportunity

There's nowhere else in the world that's quite like that, where they encourage going after your dreams, especially in Los Angeles. I think it's really cool.

I believe that Iowa is - and ought to be - a place where, if you're willing to work for it, you can make your dreams come true.

When you are young and don't have many responsibilities then you shouldn't think twice to pursue your dreams.

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours.

Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

The one thing I always think about when I don't get jobs is that it just wasn't yours. You don't want to do something that you're not right for because it won't make the production look good, and it won't make you look good.

Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful array of gorgeous human peculiarity revolves before your eyes, and you still can't quite believe it's all yours for the taking.

Even if there was an opportunity to school yourself in different characters - characters that have distinct personalities which may be totally different from yours, you have got to completely divorce your own personality to be able to go over to the other personality.

When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.

There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.

There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.

Now and again I'll bump into people and say, 'I'm a big fan of yours. Would you like to be in my sitcom?' And they say, 'Oh yes,' but when it comes to the booking, they don't want to do it.

In life, it is important to not be afraid to put yourself out there, win or lose. It is all about the spirit of challenging yourself to be open to realizing your highest potential.

People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you're likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.

You only get one shot in your life, and you might as well push yourself and try things.

Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.