Quotes About Opportunity

La oportunidad de derrotar a un enemigo la ofrece el enemigo en sí.

Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.

Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.

I should have run away from you and started college and gone on without you. But I would always have regretted it if I didn't give this a shot. - Tiffany

That's how New York looked: like a gorgeous, easy thing to have, even for me.

She says, My job is to show you a door you can open. And she taps the top of her head. It leads wherever you want it to go, she says.

Technology has afforded ordinary people a chance to glow in the cosmos of human achievement.

It's a pity we're forced to make the choices that govern the whole of our lives when we're so goddamn young." "If they're the wrong choices, then we have to make new ones," Dexter said. "Even late in the day.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.

Show me a man of fifty who doesn't regret the lives he hasn't lived.

More than anything in life, she wishes she'd let him. That she'd smiled for the camera. That she'd said yes. Life was gone before you knew it;how foolish she'd been to refuse any of it.

The opportunity to gain Willpower makes a great motivation for a story, especially your more bizarre ones.

I'd been troubled throughout high school that in my robustly multiracial school my advanced placement classes were almost exclusively white. I knew something was wrong.

For the first time in our lives, we weren't trying to create our own opportunities; we were simply trying to respond to the Spirit's leading.

Papa always said you make your own luck. And maybe you do.

The world is the board, Heiress. We just have to keep rolling the dice.

We all play by rules our brothers will never even have to know.

You look like someone who's about to do something highly inadvisable. And God knows, if there's something inadvisable going on, I want in.

The world is your motherfaxing oyster. It's okay to want things.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

An invitation. A challenge.

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.