Quotes About Opportunity

Everything imaginable had been done or tried out there. It wasn't the feeling you had looking out on his own land. In Australia, you looked out and saw the possible, the spaces, the maybes...

After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality.

And according to the most recent annual data from 2009, even when a black person has a college degree, he or she is nearly twice as likely as one of us with a degree to be unemployed, while Latinos and Asian Americans with degrees are 40 percent more likely than we are to be out of work, with the same qualifications.

All opponents are not necessarily enemies. But both enemies and opponents carry certain characteristics in common. Both perceive their opposite as an obstacle, or an opportunity, or a threat. Sometimes the threat is personal; other times it is a perceived violation of standards or accepted norms of society. In

For a change, Lady Luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

But Lando was a gambler. A true gambler never folded when he still had cards left to play.

what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

If you accept the position of governor, part of your job is to make sure all your people have a decent shot at making something good out of their lives.

Once you make a decision, you can never go back and change it. Sometimes, farther down the line, you have a chance to alter its effects. But the original decision is there forever.

luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

On the other hand, I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

If there was one thing she'd learned in this business, it was to never tell a client you couldn't do something.

Where there's life, there's the hope of change.

Your transformations are not a disease one comes down with. It's simply that you have been given the key to a door that has appeared before you. With the key in your hands, it's up to both of you whether to open it or keep it closed. If you open the door, it is also up to you whether you set foot in there or not. - Kisuke Urahara

Youth. A once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Typically, everyone in the family went to work wherever they could. Young Lloyd sold newspapers, sacked groceries in the local market, and ran the projector at the movie theater. When he wanted to join the Boy Scouts, a county official lent him the fifty cents for the admission fee. He didn't wear shoes in the summer so that he could have a decent pair in the winter.

When Kilmer got back home he married Marie immediately and the Army arranged for medical and psychiatric treatment at a prisoner-of-war rehabilitation center in Miami Beach. He was eased back into a normal life in time to use the GI Bill and attend the fall term at Creighton University in Omaha in 1946. For a young man who was proud of his high school diploma just four years earlier, this was an unexpected opportunity.

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.

Growing into an environment in which everyone else seems bigger and more powerful, every child seeks to gain what they need by the easiest route.

Mr. President. Douglas MacArthur said every military disaster can be explained in two words: 'Too late.

Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true open of security and opportunity and fellowship and respect.

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it ~Tom Clancy

A wise man knows his limitations." And a bold one seizes opportunities.

one lives as if one "might miss out on something.