Quotes About Opportunity

There's a small thrill in taking a chance

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

But as de old folks always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.

Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships…pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her…She had found a jewel inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around. But she had been set in the market-place to sell.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

Jump at the sun. You might not land on the sun, but at least you'll get off the ground.

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all. Ah wuz fumblin' round and God opened de door.

You got de keys to de kingdom.

De man dat built things oughta boss it. Let colored folks build things too if dey wants to crow over somethin'.

He had found out that no man may make another free. Freedom was something internal. The outside signs were just signs and symbols of the man inside. All you could do was to give the opportunity for freedom and the man himself must make his own emancipation.

I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if I'd got 'Downton Abbey' when I was 22.

If a company is growing, then people's roles often grow and change, and opportunities abound.

I'm open to going abroad, even though it will be difficult with my son.

I am willing to go abroad if the right opportunity comes up.

Working abroad made me better.

Moving abroad brings you on both as a player and a person.

You look at someone like Jadon Sancho, he took the chance of going abroad to get more game time and now he's possibly up there with the top players, wingers, in the world.

I didn't go abroad until I was 16.

I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.

It's been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it's personally, academically, or athletically.

My parents are two academics that came to Canada to pursue academic opportunities.

To work with the kids and help them come through from the Academy to the first team would be brilliant.

Christine Boar, who gave me my first screen test at MTV, saw something in me others hadn't. She liked my accent and didn't ask me to change it.