Quotes About Opportunity

One can earn a thousand credentials but remain unemployed.

It is a shame that the very people who used education to clamber out of the disadvantages they had grown up in, have drawn up the ladder after them.

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.

If you educate a man you educate a person but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

It was going all wrong at my college interview until I nonchalantly asked "Do you need any large donations for new buildings?"

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle to the boardroom, but it has to be an education process.

You could get an entire computer science education for free right now.

Equality in education is my number one battle.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.

Think of today as an opportunity to discover and grow beyond your mental and emotional discomfort.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

Research shows that happy people look for opportunity while others see only crises. Surrendering fear is healthy!

Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

I think that equality needs to be broadened to include equal access to comprehensive healthcare, equal access to jobs, and equal rights in the workplace.

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.