Quotes About Opportunity

But Portia's application would have landed in the great moving tide of similar applications: great kids, smart kids, hardworking kids who would certainly do great at whatever college they ended up going to, which almost certainly wasn't going to be Princeton.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them

After years of a very busy life, I found myself with no commitments. It was a very free-floating state that was open, perhaps, to new ideas.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

It is choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!

But as the old truism goes, every man has his chance, and when yours comes you had better grab it.

the true cost of anything is what we give up in order to have it. It is the path not taken. To take the responsibility of making the choice is crucial and not always easy.

The price we pay is the path not taken, that which we give up.

el verdadero coste de cualquier cosa es aquello a lo que renunciamos para obtenerla. Es el camino no tomado.

Here we are, women who have been the beneficiaries of education, resources, reproductive choices, travel opportunities, the Internet, and a longer life expectancy than women have ever had in history. What can and will we do?

51st and 52nd Streets for $700,000 in 1879—the year

Inequality is expensive for two reasons, one connected with justice and one with efficiency.

Equality of opportunity in education aims to insure us against disparities arising from the situation in which we are born

migrants bring economic benefits to a country, including for its workers in terms of more jobs and higher economic growth,

to create true equality of opportunity,

Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!

So here I was in San Francisco with a degree, and I thought it would make a difference. The first job I applied for was at American Insurance Company. I expected maybe a clerical job, but there were none there—those jobs weren't open for Oriental people at that time. Then I tried a ladies' apparel shop as a stock girl. That wasn't even open to me. Oh, they don't tell you right out to your face—but you have that feeling.

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams.

for every wickedness, there is an equal and opposite possibility of redemption.