Quotes About Opportunity

I mean you should look every day for every opportunity to point your needy kids to the presence, promises, power, and grace of Jesus.

And if there is one thing I've learned, it's if you don't put it out there, they won't put it in there.

any problem must always contain the seeds of its own solution.

The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then make lots of money with lots of money.

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

Shanghai is a bastard son of a city, an offspring nobody wants until it has something worth taking.

Gate Do not wait. Until too late. To see a loved ones' soul. Open the gate. Do not wait. To see a loved ones' soul.

It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.

For things to land in you're lap. You must be sitting down.

Many are called, few are chosen.

Never get married in the morning–you never know who you might meet that night.

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder...

J.M. Barrie was right; it is an awfully big adventure!

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

How come the white male politicians who vote against affirmative action are always so willing to accept a handicap on the golf course?

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

I believe anybody with guts and brains who's willing to work hard can make it.

as Gaston Glock himself put it in an interview: "That I knew nothing was my advantage.

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while drunk, no opportunity is lost to show off a good contusion. A bruise inflicted by someone else, however, is a whole other story: it's like a big flashing arrow marking you out as punchable, and before long there'll be boys queuing up to add bruises of their own, as if they'd just been waiting for somebody to show them it could be done.

They didn't know that I didn't know anything, and I was hoping to use that to my advantage. The only thing I had going for me was my ignorance. This was the story of my life.