Quotes About Opportunity

Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.

Nothing grows well without space and air.

I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.

I remember Tetro was a big deal to me at that time. It was going from zero to one: Never having been in a movie, a person who had no relationship to any of that, and that was my first movie.

Time is the most valuable commodity we have to offer the world. Don't be afraid to share.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.

Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.

You have to risk falling to be able to fly.

America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.

We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.

Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.

Live each day as if it were your last, and you'll develop a keen respect for opportunity.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

Sometimes you take something because it's an offer and it's big and it's good money and you have to absolutely respect that process, because it's not easier.

I understand and respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.

Youth is wasted on the young.

When you are offered a miracle take it. Otherwise, show God your tail so he can move on and give it to someone who doesn't want to be in hell any more.

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.