Quotes About Opportunity

I was careful, then, to present myself as just another immigrant, glad to be in the land where the pursuit of happiness was guaranteed in writing, which, when one comes to think about it, is not such a great deal. Now a guarantee of happiness—that's a great deal. But a guarantee to be allowed to pursue the jackpot of happiness? Merely an opportunity to buy a lottery ticket. Someone would surely win millions, but millions would surely pay for it. It

Now a guarantee of happiness—that's a great deal. But a guarantee to be allowed to pursue the jackpot of happiness? Merely an opportunity to buy a lottery ticket. Someone would surely win millions, but millions would surely pay for it.

I was careful, then, to present myself as his another immigrant, glad to be in the land where the pursuit of happiness was guaranteed in writing, which, when one comes to think of it, is not such a great deal. Now a guarantee of happiness— that's a great deal. But a guarantee to be allowed to pursue the jackpot of happiness? Merely an opportunity to buy a lottery ticket. Someone will surely win millions, but millions would surely pay for it.

And we all swooned, just a little, and dreamed that one day we, too, could board a steamer ship for the metropole with nothing more than a suitcase, a scholarship, and an inferiority complex.

Now there's nowhere to go but America. There are worse places, I said. Perhaps, he said.

was careful, then, to present myself as just another immigrant, glad to be in the land where the pursuit of happiness was guaranteed in writing, which, when one comes to think about it, is not such a great deal. Now a guarantee of happiness—that's a great deal. But a guarantee to be allowed to pursue the jackpot of happiness? Merely an opportunity to buy a lottery ticket.

My brother went to Harvard seven years after arriving in the States with no English. I won the Pulitzer Prize. We could be put on a poster touting how refugees make America great. And we do. But it shouldn't take this kind of success to be welcomed. Even if refugees, undocumented immigrants, and legal immigrants are not all potential billionaires, that is no reason to exclude them.

For privileged people, equality in an unequal world is a bonanza.

Every Interaction is an Opportunity

In life you never get what you deserve: You get what you negotiate.

There are those who will say that I brought this upon myself. By dabbling in that quiz show. They will wag a finger at me and remind me of what the elders in Dharavi say about never crossing the dividing line that separates the rich from the poor. After all, what business did a penniless waiter have to be participating in a brain quiz? The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

After all, what business did a penniless waiter have to be participating in a brain quiz? The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

A quotation in the right place at the right time is like water in a desert.

Do it today! Yesterday is gone and tomorrow it might be forbidden.

Do you wait until you have nothing to lose before you choose?

Don't regret having lost your money; maybe, if you kept it, it would have lost you.

Don't let sleeping dogs lie if they are lying on your way to success.

Don't spend your life just crawling. Recognize the wings God has gifted you and learn to fly.

Education is the poor man's haven and the ignorant man's hell.

Everything in life is a matter of luck. If luck is with you, people will know where you live.

Everything you want in your future is already in your present.

Get the money honestly if you can, if not, any idea will do.

Looking forward to a world of opportunity is great. Looking back on missed opportunity is not. Grab it now!

Make the best use of time. Don't spend time brooding over past mistakes or worrying about the future. Remember, time lost can never be regained.