Quotes About Opportunity

We all have the same dream, my grandmother says. To live equal in a country that's supposed to be the land of the free. She lets out a long breath, deep remembering.

Someday somebody's going to come along and knock this old fence down.

In your life, if you're lucky enough, you are born during a moment in time when the world is ready for the change you're bringing.

You the first in your tribe to go to college? Iris shook her head. It was a question about class. She knew that now. It was the what-are-you question. The where and what and who do you come from.

Visions are possibilities. Actions are the only thing able to determine our futures.

Maybe we don't get a long past. Maybe we just get a future.

Taking a preponderance of courses capped at fifteen or so undergraduates is important. Studying with faculty who are well treated by the institution and incentivized to work with you is important. Having the opportunity to be mentored by professors is important. Knowing an institution's pedagogical philosophy is important. Attending a school with a genuine culture of teaching is most important of all.

aujourd'hui est le premier jour du reste de ma vie

Sunlight comes into your house not because you want it. It happens because you open the windows.

Mejor es hacer algo y arrepentirse, que arrepentirse de no haberlo hecho.»

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

Johnson Middle School,

It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best.

There is no "right" way--only the way that is put before you.

There is no reason to look back when there is so much good in front of you

There is a time for everything

To eat an egg, you must break the shell.

Donald Trump wrote "The Art Of The Deal." He is a businessman. Of course, he will not allow a big deal to go unnoticed. He will sign the deal to make a big deal." So, you either in or out. It's a deal breaker Business Tycoon live by."

I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

There is no horizontal stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore, and let another come to the surface to stay there forever. Our stratification is like the ocean, where every individual drop is free to move, and where from the sternest depths of the mighty deep any drop may come up to glitter on the highest wave that rolls.

Working hard will allow you to be useful to successful people. Working smart will allow you to enter their ranks.

You clutch your comfortable excuses, saying, Someday I'll be brave, it won't take a lot, just give me one more chance and this time I'll grab it. .