Quotes About Opportunity

Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

The good news is, being a digital citizen comes naturally to many of us once we get the opportunity - human beings have been taking things apart and putting them back together throughout history.

Fighting, for me, is not a career - it's an opportunity. I'm going to take full advantage of it and do it as long as I can. As long as my body lets me and I'm healthy enough to do it naturally, I'll do it.

W. Bush's life is a case study in the insidious affirmative action for the rich.

The second means of building a fortune through theft was to take advantage of sky-high inflation rates.

Samson is talking to a bum on the street.) A guy stops near here every morning with a truck-picks up guys to do yard work, but he only takes Mexicans. Says whites are too lazy....I'm not lazy, the bum said. I earned a degree in philosophy. I'll give you a dollar, Samson said I'm having trouble finding work in my field. (The bum replied)

When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: This is for my benefit.

Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.

Once you have gotten all you need from a situation, it passes out of your life, never to return.

Wann - wenn nicht jetzt Wann soll man leben wenn nicht in der Zeit die einem gegeben ist

Remember…you always have a choice to be better. You always have a choice to pick the right path --- Even if that choice comes a little late.

Thus is the blessing of Chi-Ji," the crane said. "No more shall die this day. Take this second chance, and use it wisely.

Life is short, and you don't always get an invitation to dance. If you see something you want, go after it. ~ 2000 Kisses

If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.

Vittorio Ferraro was the most extraordinary man she'd ever meet and she would forever regret being a coward if she didn't give what had been growling between them a chance.

Life certainly changes, doesn't it? she asked her birth father. One moment you feel there is no hope, no way out, and the next, the entire world opens up for you. Razvan reached for Ivory's hand. That is the truth, Skyler.

How do you manage to turn everything to your advantage?" His hand found the bare skin of her satin-smooth thigh, reveling in all that warm heat. "I do not know the answer to that, little one. Perhaps it is sheer talent.

Every time a student's family income increases by $5,000, the student's SAT score (either math or verbal) rises; for each $5,000 decrease, the score drops. This holds true every year and for every ethnic group.

College would be a new beginning, a time when they could both choose to be anything or anyone they wished.

All of life is a wager

The only known cure for poverty is emancipation of women

Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the USA it seemed to be true that if you dared to give things 'your best shot' then the other much-used phrases like 'land of opportunity' would kick in as well.

The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.

Every time a supermodel divorces her rock-star husband, the Beta Male secretly rejoices (or more accurately, feels great waves of unjustified hope), and every time a beautiful movie star marries, the Beta Male experiences a sense of lost opportunity. The entire city of Las Vegas—plastic opulence, treasure for the taking, vulgar towers, and cocktail waitresses with improbable breasts—is built on the self-delusion of the Beta Male.