Quotes About Opportunity

We must be careful not to be so scared of getting out on a limb that we never get up the tree.

I was very lucky to be offered a lovely piece of property to build a career on. I started building a house on it, but it wasn't necessarily a house I would want to live in. So I ripped down that house, and I worked with these great lumberjacks to build a really cool cabin—a place I want to drink whiskey in and hang out until the sun rises.

Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

They felt that all boys and girls should be able to feel that, if they have what it takes, there is no limit to the opportunity. A ceiling should not be imposed on a young person's educational opportunities either by limited family means or negative family attitudes.

Alice must already have known, even back then, when she first saw Fortune, when she was, what, nine or ten, that she would try and hitch a lift on the wheel, too, as soon as she possibly could. She must already have been thinking out how. But she couldn't have guessed how soon her chance would come.

In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and the memory fades. Not all dreams are significant or worth remembering. But the ones that are . . . happen again. So, wait for the dream to return. And never be afraid. Instead, consider it an opportunity to learn something profound and possibly wondrous about yourself.

One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time.

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.

I'm tired of sailing my little boat Far inside of the harbor bar; I want to be out where the big ships float — Out on the deep where the Great Ones are! … And should my frail craft prove too slight For storms that sweep those wide seas o'er, Better go down in the stirring fight Than drowse to death by the sheltered shore! — Daisy Rinehart

One thing we learned while building Google is that it's easier to find what you're looking for if it comes looking for you. What we're looking for are the best engineers in the world. And here you are.

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping-stone to something better…" ~Harland "The Colonel" Sanders

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.

I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.

When a teenaged girl asked Trump during a campaign rally whether he believed women deserved equal pay, he irritatingly responded, "Only if you do as good of a job." Well, the question is, how can a woman do as good a job if society is designed in such a way that women don't have equal individual rights?

Each day is a adventure. And remember, there are no endings... Only new beginnings.

Truly maximizing their potential, some students do two years of college in high school through the Running Start program.

But while the online education business has a very low bar entry—anyone can piece together a few web services and, voilà, have paying students—success is not a guarantee.