Quotes About Opportunity

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.

The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn't matter where you came from but where you are going.

You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.

I'm an American, nothing is impossible.

The great moments of your life are still ahead. Yet if you only take a step when you are certain you are right, you will never move at all.

Let us accept each coming day and make the best possible choices

We only have one chance, even if the entire world rests on us.

What is a first line, but a door flung open by an unseen hand

A veces solo tenemos una oportunidad, solo tenemos un segundo para decidir el curso de nuestra vida.

El amor no es una recompensa, es una oportunidad. Una oportunidad de ser algo más. cuando un hombre o una mujer tienen esa oportunidad, deben aceptarla, sea cual sea el riesgo.

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

There's a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into their soul. They dream big dreams and think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in.

Success in never final; failure is never fatal

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

discovering (or creating) new market space (that is, innovation!) should be the goal and ambition of every company.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Fortune favored him… in the opportune moment of his death.

Apparently I looked strong enough for harder work; I was told to report to the Phillips factory.

You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.