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Quotes About Opportunity

If you have got a dream and you've got ambition, then go for it. You know, unless you try, you'll never know.
~ Eddie the Eagle
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
~ Margaret Thatcher
You don't really do much in life unless you take risks, push yourself and find your passion.
~ Karren Brady
The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.
~ E. Joseph Cossman
Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.
~ Sid Waddell
You don't leave Australia unless you are passionate. Any Australian actor who comes to America is really committed. There are no dabblers - it's all or nothing.
~ Margot Robbie
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the real significance of being a pro unless you're playing other pros. It doesn't help you to play sporadically here or there.
~ Michael Cooper
Governments can't credibly claim to be concerned about stagnant growth and ageing workforces unless they are actively seeking to empower women economically. One way they can speed up progress towards gender-equal economic opportunity is to change laws that are holding women back.
~ Arancha Gonzalez
People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a sure thing.
~ Julianne Moore
It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
~ Candice Bergen
If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.
~ Grace Hartigan
Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
~ Madeleine M. Kunin
Flying is the best possible thing for women.
~ Raymonde de Laroche
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.
~ Marissa Mayer
Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech.
~ Marissa Mayer
It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region are making by giving a chance to women.
~ Atifete Jahjaga
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
~ Jane Austen
Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.
~ Michelle Bachelet
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
~ Rosalyn S. Yalow
With all the talent around, it's sort of amazing that a woman could be up here with us.
~ Ralph Kiner
If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.
~ Kang Youwei
A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
~ Isabel Allende
Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.
~ Amy Vanderbilt