Quotes About Opportunity

Don't waste your most important resource—your life.

We Have a ChanceTo Save LivesIf We Don't Take ItWe May Regret ItLike We DidWith Alan Kurdi

Women have a role to play in global development.

Women can do everything men can do the rest.

Seize opportunity by the beard for it is bald behind.

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.

America's legacy has been crafted by generations of hard-working men and women who moved to the United States from all over the globe to pursue their dreams.

One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television.

Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.

I think women athletes who have been successful need to help other sports, those sports that are just emerging. That's what I've been thinking about and looking forward to.

Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short.

I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think that's what all women should have.

Leadership desperately needs women.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded.

There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.