Quotes About Opportunity

It was tough to get to where I am, to get the following that I do have on social media and all the fans out there, which I greatly appreciate, but I would love to have a template so the next girl who grows up doesn't have to go through a lot of the hardships that we faced in our generation.

Social networks, professional networks, offices, and schools help keep high earners in place.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.

What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.

I worked as a clerical assistant at the Department of Health and Social Security for about three months before I went to drama school.

The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Socialism is the antithesis of opportunity and it's time to reject this failed and dangerous idea once and for all.

You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

This is not a socialist country; let's be clear on that. This is a country that believes: give people the opportunities and they will be able to exceed and excel in this country. And I believe in that is because that's what I saw in my personal journey and the journey of so many people who come to this country.

India's future has to be built on the foundation of social protection of the economically and socially handicapped sections.

I've never believed the charter movement was exclusively for socially and economically disadvantaged kids.

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable.

The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.

Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.

History shows that societies where opportunity is safeguarded tend to be societies that are good international citizens.

We all want equality, we all want to be loved, we all want to have the full potential and opportunity to grow and to participate fully in our societies.

If we provide quality education to one generation, poverty will automatically be eradicated from society.

I've gotten scholarships from the Asian-American Directors Guild of America society and things like that, and those things helped me, even if I didn't realize how much.

'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.

Our businesses also help promote socio-economic progress.

The mission of the Ruby Bridges Foundation is to create educational opportunities like science camp that allow children from different racial, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds to build lasting relationships.