Quotes About Opportunity

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

Things won't go perfect. It's all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes.

I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.

Don't be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It's when you're uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "first Attempt In Learning".

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.

With every episode of struggle, there is a learning opportunity.

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.