Quotes About Opportunity

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

ThoughtOf equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

She finally said: 'I want to provide you with the opportunity to be free to make a choice of belonging with someone, but never to someone else'.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.

Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.

It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities.

I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.

Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance

If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.

Don't be afraid to start over again. This time you're not starting from scratch, you're starting from experience.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain.

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.