Quotes About Opportunity

Your beginning never dictates your destnation.

Your gift can make room for you.

When God asks, "What is that you have in your hand?" it's up to us to find the answer. Everyone's answer is different. But there is something we all share. Everything is already inside you. All you have to do is mine it. Dig down deep and discover your thing.

Everybody is dealt a different hand, but you have to do what you have with your hand.

deeper lessons will be revealed; they've shown me God's hand in closing some doors and opening others; they've helped me release my past to create a future of hope; they've given me the tools to offer forgiveness, and put me back on the path whenever I lose my way. Strong roots are the faith from which grows the undeniable understanding that everything in life, the good and the bad, is a God-given opportunity to stand in the light. Everything.

Every national promoter I had spoken with during the past seven years, every one who had turned me down, now had offers in hand to take me on tour. Before long I was playing arenas with 20,000 seats and filling every one of them.

The beginning of my career focused on trying to be a successful model for myself. How many campaigns, magazine covers, fashion shows, and endorsements I could get. The way I see the world now has changed. I am trying to offer as much opportunity to others as I can.

When one door of opportunity slams shut in your face, you don't turn around and go home, boo. Oh, no. You just go through that side door, and if that's closed, go through the back door, the cellar door, the attic—just get in the damn house!

But where danger lurks, the saving powers also grow.

Social equality is not a subject to be legislated upon, nor shall I ask that anything be done to advance the social status of the colored man, except to give him a fair chance to develop what there is good in him, give him access to the schools, and when he travels let him feel assured that his conduct will regulate the treatment and fare he will receive.

Each day is a loan, spend it wisely.

Even when opportunity knocks a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door

Don't waste your youth growing up.

Difficulties are stepping stones to success.

Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer.

Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don't depend on it

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Confidence is the hinge on the door to success.

All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.

Do not be afraid to go out on a limb ... That's where the fruit is.

Be thankful for each new challenge, because it will build your strength and character.

The greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas.