Quotes About Opportunity

Many came to the USFL after being cut by NFL teams or failing to even make a roster, some were Canadian league players who wanted to make a step up, and every one of them wanted to prove he was good enough to make the NFL.

If your first film fails, no one is ready to put money on you any further. But if you have faith in yourself, you will definitely make it.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

Instead of letting things break you, look at failures as opportunities to get better. Become unbreakable.

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.

How do you make things fair?

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

If the CEO is not going to give you a fair chance, you're probably not going to win.

To give every child a fair chance to succeed, we need to give them the best possible start in life. For far too many that isn't happening.

I'll be a fan of the XFL, and if they want me to do something, then I'd love to... not to play. I'm not gonna play. I'm done with that, but everything else is fair game.

A black entrepreneur has to be equally if not more prepared than a white to get his fair share of loan money.

Every American, and every corporation, should pay their fair share to build the American dream.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

As Democrats, we believe in fairness and opportunity.

I think confidence is a big part of it. Also luck - the ball has got to fall for you in the right time and the right place.

I feel like everything in my life has somehow just fallen into perfect place at the perfect time. I don't know how it happened. It's always like right at the point of my life about to fall apart, and then something amazing happens. I don't know how, but it happens.

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living at it. I thought it was something I would grow out of. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Everything's just sorta fallen into place.

This concept that starting a company is so hard and that you'll never make it is conspiracy concocted by the rich and powerful to keep you from trying - and you've fallen for it.

I have been a little lucky to get work. I know there are people who struggle a lot to get a film; I believe a lot in destiny. Things have fallen into place for me.

I have basically fallen into everything I've ever done.

I've never had it easy. There have been fortunate coincidences and instances, but nothing has fallen into my lap. Whatever I've achieved has always been through sheer hard work.

I always likened retirement to falling off a cliff, and then you have to kind of brush yourself off.