Quotes About Opportunity

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy . . . in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, [and] Musick.

There's an old joke among software developers. When something works in an unexpected but strangely effective way, the developers often kid, "Oh, that's not a bug. That's a future." While this is usually a joke, designers can use the same technique of reframing the problem when tackling their own projects. In fact, there's an old joke among designers: "It's not a problem. It's an opportunity.

As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.

Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.

If greatness is your goal, it can only be achieved today.

You can start every day from now on by identifying a specific danger to eliminate, a specific opportunity to capture, and a specific strength to maximize.

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays." —Meredith Willson

What if we had walked a different path one day, would some small incident have nudged us elsewhere the way a pebble tossed into a brook might change the course a hundred miles downstream?

Expect the best, prepare for the worst. Right?" "As long as a person doesn't spend all their time preparing for the worst and miss when they stumble across the best.

And saying yes to this version of her life would mean saying no to another version of her life.

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.

He didn't even have a chance . . . no, he had only one chance, and he gave it to me.

Los estudiantes acaban de descubrir una característica reveladora de la economía mundial: nuestra fortuna económica está determinada principalmente por dónde (en qué país) nacemos y, sólo de manera secundaria, por el lugar que ocupamos en la escala de distribución de ingresos.

We are tyrannized by our options.

No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

You can't control every event of your life, Miss Darlington, so you might as well enjoy each moment you can and grasp each lovely opportunity that comes your way… such as this glorious, sunny day.