Quotes About Opportunity

To have no particular aim was to open grand possibilities...

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

única qualidade indispensável a um homem de poder é a capacidade de se apoderar das circunstâncias.

You know that saying, that when God closes a door he opens a window, well, sometimes out of nowhere he'll do you one better and he'll kick a whole wall down.

Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.

Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.

Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it.

Our forbears came to these shores not for free stuff, but for freedom. The chance to make their own way, create a different life. They came here because they knew that God made them free to make their own way in life, take the risk, do their best and take responsibility for their own lives. They came here because they wanted to serve Him in the way they believed, not as they were told.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like - well - young women. {...} I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one.

Because adventure starts the moment I leave my door.

I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

Women are always saying, "We can do anything that men can do." But men are not saying, "We can do anything that women can do.

It's time to leave - there is so much out there to do and say and listen to.

I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one.

When I'm traveling, I'm often confronted by a middle-aged white man who says something like "A black woman took my job." My answer is always "Who said it was your job?" The problem is his sense of entitlement.