Quotes About Opportunity

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Your world is as big as you make it.

God gives the milk but not the pail.

I expect to pass though this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

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

Everyone only goes around the track once in life, and if you don't enjoy that trip, it's pretty pathetic.

Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.

I shall not pass this way again: Then let me now relieve some pain, Remove some barrier from the road, Or brighten some one's heavy load.

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

The people you need to help you make your dream come true are everywhere, and within your reach.

Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness."

You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

You never know what you can do till you try.