Quotes About Opportunity

The only real asset you have is your time. The hours of your life.

Instead of leisure being simply "relaxed activity," it was transformed into an opportunity for increased consumption—even consumption of leisure itself (as in travel and vacations).

Military history reminds us that those who died on behalf of democratic freedom to stop totalitarian killing were a different sort than totalitarians who died fighting against it to perpetuate killing. The sacrifice of the former meant that generations yet born might have a greater likelihood of opportunity, security, and freedom; the latter fought for a cause that would have increased the suffering of future generations.

There were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you become the plaything to circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the typical inmate.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Hoy corresponde a los poderes públicos de los estados de derecho esforzarse en poner las condiciones que hagan posible para todo individuo conquistar la felicidad.

Efforts are meant to optimize, not to waste. The right time to optimize it is when others are open to giving their buy-ins to participate.

If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.

Success in America comes in over a million flavors... all you have you have to do is try one.

Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state's beauty, the opportunity she affords, and the independent spirit of her citizens.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.

The beauty of America is people can do what they like.

Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

New York is eating young geniuses [businessmen] up alive. It's eating them up alive, Stone. And it's showing the beauty of the city, but it's showing the toughness and the viciousness of the city.

The beauty of the Internet is there's a niche market for everything, and if you can focus on it, you can build a sustainable and viable business of it.