Quotes About Opportunity

missing, intangible, undefinable "something" that we only know exists because we don't seem to have it. "Something to do" represents the investment of the most precious commodity that we all have—our time. We all have the same amount of hours and minutes each day. Success and happiness hang in the balance based upon how

Every day is a gift because it can either be the first day of the rest of our life or be our last day here on earth.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.

As Martin Luther King Jr. said in his "I Have a Dream" speech, whose fiftieth anniversary has now passed, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."1 King's dream failed that night in Florida when Zimmerman decided to follow Martin because of the color of his skin.

But no matter where you go as a white person in American society, no matter where you live, no matter who your friends and allies are, and no matter what you do to help overcome racism, you can never escape white privilege in America if you are white.

A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to celebrate Mass or receive the body of the Lord without previous sacramental confession unless there is a grave reason and there is no opportunity to confess; in this case the person is to remember the obligation to make an act of perfect contrition which includes the resolution of confessing as soon as possible [CIC 916].

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

If life gives you limes make margaritas.

The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

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.

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people cant. But I dont believe that the Federal Government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, particularly when there is a moral factor involved.

The problem is that when you get it, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

Everyday is a second chance to redeem yourself.

Wilma was amazed that she, a sixteen-year-old high school girl, had a chance to be a part of the Olympics

There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.

She wasn't famous then," Pat said. "Nobody is. You never know until too late. They're just people like everyone else. Anyone you know might become famous. Or not. You don't know which ones will make a difference or if any of them will. You might become famous yourself. You might change the world.

Melhor um pássaro voando do que dois na mão!... Eis a versão do provérbio, para uso dos fortes, dos capazes de ideal... - É a versão dos otários, também.

Ao que, digo ao senhor, pergunto! em sua vida é assim? Na minha, agora é que vejo, as coisas importantes, todas, em caso curto de acaso foi que se conseguiram ? pelo pulo fino de sem ver se dar ? a sorte momenteira, por cabelo por um fio, um clim de clina de cavalo. Ah, e se não fosse, cada acaso, não tivesse sido, qual é então que teria sido o meu destino seguinte? Coisa vã, que não conforma respostas. As vezes essa ideia me põe susto.

Tudo neste mundo se consegue com trabalho e quem é preto consegue menos com muito mais trabalho, então tem de trabalhar multiplicado e trabalhar em todos os trabalhos e trabalhar o tempo todo e trabalhar sem distrair e sempre acreditar que alguém quer tomar o resultado do trabalho.