Quotes About Opportunity

An experience opens many windows," an Anglo-Saxon writer once said.

That's a central life question, don't you think? Do you regret the things you did, or the things never done?

Clearly Livia had mad skills. Which meant she also had a way out of her impoverished, drug-dealing, crime-ridden family life. Her education combined with her natural ability—the sky should've been the limit. So what went wrong? Why wasn't she still at school, perfecting more pumpkins and fidget doohickeys and manufacturing molds while preparing to launch the next great

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.

Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.

People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.

The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.

From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.

Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.