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Quotes About Opportunity

There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work.
~ Edith Clarke
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
~ Lana Turner
I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
~ Zinedine Zidane
If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.
~ David Cameron
I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.
~ Joko Beck
Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
~ Lucille Ball
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.
~ Christian D. Larson
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
~ Gary Player
You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.
~ Farrah Gray
If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.
~ J. Paul Getty
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot
~ Donnie Wahlberg
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
~ George Monbiot
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. And if that doesn't work out for you, Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life.
~ Bob Saget
Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.
~ William J. Clinton
If you work, if you wait, you will find the place where the four-leaf clovers grow.
~ Ella Higginson
The possibilities of success are limitless, as long as you're willing to put the work in.
~ T.I.
If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools.
~ Liberace
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
~ Guy Kawasaki
We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.
~ Waris Dirie
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
~ John F. Kennedy
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.
~ Julia Gillard
Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it
~ Robert Kiyosaki