Quotes About Opportunity

Just look at the set of unsolvable questions which it sets off even just in this room at the 'Women Mean Business' conference. All of the women here have benefited from career advancement. Many could hardly enjoy more. Which of them is willing to offer up that place to somebody of a different skin colour, sexual orientation or class position, and when and how should they do

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

one of the glories of education is the opportunity to hear the truth come out of a human being with blood in the veins and air in the lungs, and not just off a printed page.

Hardship in a story is grace; hardship without a story is just pain. Childrearing is the opportunity that you have to love your children in preparation for a harvest, but that means you need to have the harvest in mind.

Midlife: when the Universe grabs your shoulders and tells you "I'm not f-ing around, use the gifts you were given.

The surest way to keep a people down is to educate the men and neglect the women. If you educate a man you simply educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family.

Fate presented itself to some like a chinese fan--one side black, the other side gilded with flowers. (Noli Me Tangere)

Failure isn't the end of the world, nor is it a sign that you won't be capable of going on to do other things.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

This is no dress rehearsal.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.

Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.

And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.) KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS! So... be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, you're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way!

Oh, the places you'll go!

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes, and you can go in any direction you choose.

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way!

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.