Quotes About Opportunity

I came to this country when I was 12 years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn't your gender - it's you.

If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be a shame.

It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.

Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

You want to close the income inequality gap in part? Give us better educated kids out of high school. Give us kids that can challenge and succeed in the challenge with technology. You give us those kinds of kids, and watch the needle move.

I said if I ever conducted, I would always give myself the best chance to succeed - though sometimes, despite everything, you still fail.

Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don't necessarily reflect the world's brightest and most capable thought leaders but, rather, the people who've been afforded the most opportunities to succeed.

Let's make the SAT and PSAT free so everyone has a chance to succeed.

I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

Out on bail, fresh outta jail, California dreamin

Opportunities lose not, for all delay is madness; ?Mid bitter sorrow patience show, for ?tis the key of gladness.

A person does not seek luck; luck seeks the person

For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.

You don't get lucky without preparation, and there's no sense in being prepared if you're not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

I thank God for Closed Doors

True love can come more than once.

It's a clear day Sonny, L A N D.