Quotes About Opportunity

Everything happens for a reason. My aunt Juanita lost her trailer in a tornado, but when she got her insurance settlement she got enough money to buy a new, black all-lace body suit. So she now sees the inside of lots of trailers. Dreams do come true.

I am involved with 'Write Girl ' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.

Sometimes you have to just go for what you want. Take the risk in order to get the reward.

No one ought to despond in adverse circumstances, for they may turn out to be the cause of good to us.*

When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.

Cities are the world's new vacant niches, and the blackbird is one species that has embarked on the road toward speciating to maximize its profits from this horn of plenty,

John Maynard Keynes (d. 1946) felt similarly wistful, noting, "I should have drunk more champagne.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

I was one of six undergraduate women majoring in computer science at a university of twenty thousand

course. There was only one spare seat in the whole room, and we already

The world waits for you with all its beauty, but also its frights and its pain.

Never ever judge a person in the first degree of his/her bad deeds or says, being a smart leader, you must give him/her the opportunity to come back up on his/her conscience, in order to shed credible light on the beauty of the facts.

Success is not served in a tray, To achieve it we have to make our own way, I would like to end by saying that opportunity is within, To fall down on our journey is not a sin, But our failure should not hold our steps forward, And for our dreams, we should never feel awkward

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

He who does not venture has no luck.

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

In 1973 the companies and individuals later to be identified with the advent of the personal computer were otherwise engaged. IBM was still turning out electric typewriters; Microsoft's Bill Gates was a freshman entering Harvard; and Steve Jobs, the future co-founder of Apple Computer, was a college dropout wandering around India in search of his Zen master. But

Whenever judges of the highest state courts have actually examined the details of the "savage inequalities" that continue to be imposed on most low-income and minority students in the United States, they have virtually unanimously held that these conditions deny students the opportunity to be educated at the basic levels that are needed to function well in contemporary society.