Quotes About Opportunity

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Education is the gift that keeps on giving, providing the skills and knowledge necessary to tackle life's challenges and pursue one's dreams.

Education is the key to unlock the doors of opportunity and success, but it requires dedication, hard work, and a willingness to never stop learning.

Tom Junior invented the story that his father had won $750,000 in the California State Lottery. There was no lottery 'win' but Thomas did give Tom Junior money to start a flower shop and bought Samantha a car.

We are, in fact, a nation of immigrants. It's just a question of whether we're going to celebrate that and invest in it, or whether we're going to ignore it and deny it.

America is a nation of big shoulders and big dreams.

I think the greatest legacy of the civil rights movement is that it made America a better place for all of us, regardless of race or ethnicity.

When the war ended, more than twelve million men and women put their uniforms aside and returned to civilian life. They went back to work at their old jobs or started small businesses; they became big-city cops and firemen; they finished their degrees or enrolled in college for the first time; they became schoolteachers

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

Time is something that fills the empty spaces of life

No substantial change has ever been managed without risk.

In life, it's not what you hope for, its not what you deserve, it's what you take.

People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

When I went to college, it didn't even occur to me that I should be in a sorority at all. I went to school in New York City, where you don't need to be in a sorority to go to a party!

It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.

People ask me if I am thinking of retiring. Well, it doesn't occur to me. Different day, different challenge, different way. Lovely jubbly.

I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.

It occurred to me that my family had achieved the American Dream, from being poor to starting a business to giving me and my brother an amazing education. It's one reason I joined the Air Force, because I believed I can never give back to America what America has given to my family and me.

If a man can coach a female, why can't a female coach a male? When I was looking for a coach, the gender of the coach never occurred to me. It was about who I thought was good and who I could get along with and listen to.

I started in theater; I did theater in New York for 14 years before I even thought about doing movies - I never thought about being in a film; it just never occurred to me.

I was born with the confidence of an 89-year-old man. So it's strange when people ask, 'What's it like being a female comedian?' It never occurred to me that I'd be limited as a woman - that I couldn't be a scientist, a doctor, or anything I wanted.

It was not something that ever occurred to me, to be able to be in TV. I was very lucky.