Quotes About Opportunity

I believe your reality is what you make it, what you choose to see, and what you choose to allow yourself to do. There are possibilities all around you - magic all around you - no matter what situation you're in.

I know life goes on if you make a big bet and you lose. But if you don't give yourself the best chance of winning, you're going to kick yourself tomorrow.

The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.

Why make life so dull when you can make it exciting and meet amazing people and go to countries and see things? You make life the way you want it to be. A lot of people don't realize that at the end of the day, the ultimate control of what you do and your destiny, it lies in the way you want to direct yourself.

Never assume you can't do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.

Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live it to the full.

Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

The best thing is to invest in yourself, because it takes money to make money.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

To reap this demographic dividend, we need to enable the youth to acquire skills required to get the job or become self-employed.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such.

I moved to Braddock in 2001 and started a program to help local youth earn their GED and find jobs.

Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.

Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.

When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.

Let your youth have free reign. It won't come again, so be bold, and no repenting.

That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.

Skills-building opportunities should be extended to people outside of the mainstream talent pool. That might include at-risk youth, veterans returning to the workforce, or immigrants struggling to make a life for themselves in a foreign culture. The process for creating wealth must begin with creating opportunity for all.

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.