Quotes About Opportunity

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Despite the successful suppression campaign in February, the coronavirus crisis of 2020 could easily have been a major liability for Xi's regime. Instead, it became an occasion for what has been aptly termed "disaster nationalism," an opportunity to demonstrate collective resilience under the leadership of the party.

Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.

a team sunk at the end of the first segment stands a good shot of staying alive, or even coming in first, at the leg's end. And even teams that fall irretrievably far behind, have a chance of catching up to others at a bunching point.

Your chance; Is Your Choice....

Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.

All we are given is possibilities— to make ourselves one thing or another. JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET  

Every time a parent says to himself, "I wish I hadn't said that. Why didn't I think to say . . . ," he automatically gets another chance. Life with children is open-ended.

I love that I never know who I'm going to meet next in New York. Sometimes I imagine all these millions of kids who have come here like jeweled doorknobs marked "turn me." It's an Alice-in-Wonderland kind of city.

Individuals who continually play it safe in life, taking the path of least resistance and risk, deny themselves rich opportunities for personal growth. Some

You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim. You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.

keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as oportunity.

Create your own destiny!

Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

The difference between an opportunity and a problem is the individual that first faces the situation.

The past four decades have seen one of the most depressing developments in the history of the meritocratic idea: the marriage between merit and money.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker or an actor is the ability to take risks, and the ability to tell stories that might not otherwise be told.

I've never felt that I had to take a role in order to further my career. I'm always looking for roles that challenge me as an actor and as a person.

I'm attracted to roles that people don't necessarily see me in.

Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.