Quotes About Opportunity

President Barack Obama

People with disabilities deserve the chance to build a life for themselves in the communities where they choose to live.

Another way of indicating the importance of immigration to America is to point out that every American who ever lived, with the exception of one group, was either an immigrant himself or a descendant of immigrants. The

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

Since 1607, when the first English settlers reached the New World, over 42 million people have migrated to the United States.

Change always comes bearing gifts.

If I'm not for myself, who will be for me? If not this way, how? If not now, when?

Non valeva la pena di avere vent'anni se non ci si permetteva il lusso di sbagliare strada

Safe?" he said, a sudden lightness in his tone. "It may or may not be safe, but it will most definitely be worth it.

it is never too late to make things right.

Creating time, space, and opportunity to hear God is paramount for those of us who desire to sense His Spirit's conviction, to receive His detailed guidance, and to discern His intimate leading. Before

Audentes fortuna iuvat. La fortuna favorece a los audaces

The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era of heightened challenge and creativity, of issues, and their world-wide scope, never has an era faced a more demanding and exciting crisis. This then, above all else, is the great and glorious era to live in, a time of of opportunity, one requiring fresh and vigorous thinking, indeed, a glorious time to be alive.

This may only be Act One!

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready. —D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES

Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!

The unknowns wasn't full of terrors, it was full of undiscovered advantages. Better to run toward something than from something.

Reset the board and keep playing.

In bocca al lupo' 'Crepi il lupo

need to remember my failures as much as my successes; they teach me to think harder about the risks I'm taking. Because not all those risks are mine.

Out of nowhere, he remembered something his father had told him when he was just a child. When all the world is a lock, boy, you don't make a key. You become a key.

What I'm sorry about is not being a tipsy idiot when you found me. I'm sorry about that, obviously, but more sorry that my stupidity caused us to lose a great opportunity. I don't imagine you would have met me and fallen crazy in love with me, but I would like to think that if you'd had a chance to meet me under different circumstances, something just as nice could have happened. We could have become friends.

The reward is in the risk. You can't stay hidden inside Grandpa's overprotective cloak forever. You've seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it's up to you to

This is the funny thing about New York - there are so many things to do at all times of the day, but there are still moments when you have no idea which of them to do, and feel extra silly because you know there has to be something out there for you to do; your mind just hasn't found it yet.