Quotes About Opportunity

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

You only live once. "That's why, if you think you've made a mistake, no matter how much you struggle, how much difficulty you face, you have to fix what can be fixed. There's no time for regrets.

Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?

My grandmother once told me that while there is no suffering a person cannot endure, there is plenty of good fortune one can never hope to enjoy. I believe that.

What a shame for a man like him to be born during peacetime. If he'd been born only a few decades earlier, he'd have worn the mantle of hero,

Heavens never seals off all the exits

Every year, you lose a bit of potential.

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

Los economistas han demostrado que es, por ejemplo, lo que ocurre en la emigración: las personas emigran no porque sufran una privación absoluta, sino una privación relativa; no porque sean pobres, sino porque son conscientes de que pueden vivir mejor. Cuanto más contacto tenemos unos con otros, más aspiraciones genera ese contacto.

unas elecciones perdidas siempre pueden volver a ganarse, pero un cambio de reglas significa una situación completamente nueva.

Working-class and lower-middle-class people across the developed world have lost confidence in their ability to achieve the life that their parents enjoyed during the heyday of the postwar boom.

Economists and sociologists have concluded that what drives migration is not absolute deprivation,50 or poverty,

In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use—and easier to lose.

El primer y más importante motor de la protesta fue la realidad demográfica de los jóvenes en países como Túnez, Egipto y Siria, personas más sanas y mejor preparadas que nunca, pero sin trabajo y profundamente frustradas.

Like some kind of migratory bird, money has long had special places to go when it wishes to reproduce in peace.