Quotes About Opportunity

That the things in life which don't go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do.

Odd that your life can contain such significant trip wires to your future and, even while you wander through them, you have no idea.

And she looked up at me and it was as if she was waking from sleep. She stretched. She actually stretched and she said, hello, Kit. And then she must have seen that I was on the verge of tears because her face fell and she said, what is it? And I said, you. You are ruining my chances. And, you know, she said, chances of what? And I realised that if I were to successfully—

Please.' Esme stood. She clasped her hands together to keep them still. 'Miss Murray says I could get a scholarship and after that perhaps university and—' 'There would be no profit in it,' her father said, as he settled himself back into his armchair. My daughters will not work for a living.

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

He who delays the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out.

Sometimes before your luck can be good,someone else's has to be bad

Lo malo era que en el mundo real no tenía opción a más vidas. Tienes una y va que chuta. Si la perdía, se acababa el juego.

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

Keeper had shifted the limits of my world, or maybe simply rubbed them out. Now, as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened, he was preparing to take a free kick at me. It

One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

Life is a present but you must open it.

The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was that not like the opportunity afforded man by life itself? Of course not. Still, just for a moment, it had seemed that it was.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Temptation leans on the doorbell, but opportunity knocks only once.

When a chance for real happiness comes by, grab it with both hands and devour it. If it lasts five minutes or five lifetimes, it's still worth it.

Life is not a dress rehearsal'. There were no rewrites, no retakes,