Quotes About Opportunity

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

God gives us many chances in this world and I don't believe they're confined to a choice between good and evil, or what people think is right and wrong. Anyway, I believe my choice now is right, because if a change is possible, I will be given a chance to lead a life of greater meaning and dignity. And I think God would probably approve of that!

It's a great opportunity for him, though I suspect he's in for a shock about how much people in L.A. would rather talk about films than make them.

Here they were, the people we were becoming, about to knock on our front door, hoping they could undo the mistakes we were making at that very moment.

They say what's for you won't go past you...

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

There are times when visible poverty has its advantages.

I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.

Truth be told, you can make a hell of a lot more money by being wrong at the right time than by being right at the wrong time.

There are 7 billion people on the planet. Of these, a mere 17 million have the privilege of living in the New York Greater Metropolitan Area.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Some things happen only once, twice in a lifetime. The world is full of signs and wonders that come, and go, and if you are lucky you might be alive to see them.

Not if you know the secret,' he countered, leaning closer. There was a slight Jack Nicholson vibe to all this. I drew back, faintly alarmed. 'It's simple. If you want a well-behaved goshawk, you just have to do one thing. Give 'em the opportunity to kill things. Kill as much as possible. Murder sorts them out.' And he grinned.

If I was afraid that something bad would happen, why wait? Why not make it happen now?

So Harriet maintains her point, which is that joining isn't a question of effort or overextension thereof. You miss your chance to join several generations before birth.

It seemed wrong not to take a chance to meet people.

The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

You're more likely to be able to get on in life, get educated, and get a good job, regardless of who your parents are and what they do in Denmark than anywhere else. It turns out that it's easier to live 'The American Dream' here than it's ever likely to be in the US.

Being an immigrant is not for the admin-phobic.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.