Quotes About Opportunity

Time never works. It eats, and undermines, and rots, and rusts, and destroys. But it never works. It only gives us an opportunity to work.

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.

Recognizing that the movie business was the entertainment business that wasn't moving fast enough to fill my creative and financial coffers was an impetus to grow, and that has taken me and so many of my colleagues into a larger world.

Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope—some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. Our task is to help replace their despair with opportunity. This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Freedom is not enough.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

It strikes me that moments like these abound. At every turn, there is always n opportunity to say yes or no. To smile or stare straight ahead. To connect or pass by barely rubbing shoulders. One day we may wake up and wonder why we said no way Jose, why we stared straight ahead, why we passed up the chance for love, or ever 'like.' Why indeed? Because it seems like the right idea at the time.

Sometimes everything breaks up so something new can break through.

You deserve to have a prosperous and abundant life!

GREAT THINGS sometimes come from rewriting under pressure.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

England of 1840 expected its young, affluent women to be literate and culturally astute, but it provided no real occupation for women with energy and vision. Fields of endeavor that were open to energetic, ambitious men—the military, finance, law, medicine, manufacture—were effectively closed to women.

SECRET #22 It's better to focus on what you can do instead of what you can't do.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

a war maxim attributed to Napoleon: Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Gentlemen, you have seen for yourselves what criminal folly it was to try to defend this city. . . . I only wish that certain statesmen in other countries who seem to want to turn all of Europe into a second Warsaw could have the opportunity to see, as you have, the real meaning of war.

She was thinking that the grass really could be greener on the other side of the fence. It depended on who wa standing in the grass. Maybe you had to go take a look