Quotes About Opportunity

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child's account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar - the federal government will.

Film festivals are important, as they often provide an opportunity to look at a film from a fresh perspective.

I don't want to be a glamour doll. I want roles which provide me the scope to perform.

I do my best to choose projects that I believe highlight different things or at least provide some sort of progression for people of color.

If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.

I specially want to work for the poor children and want to provide them with education.

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

I'm one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn't a millionaire. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a millionaire. But there ought to be a little economic diversity in the Senate and I try to provide it.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

How could I have known? There seemed time for everything in those days; the world was open to be explored at leisure.

Too late, old boy, too late. The saddest words in the English language.

Open country was easily reached in those days.

Cuando sientas deseos de criticar a alguien" -fueron sus palabras- "recuerda que no todo el mundo ha tenido las mismas oportunidades que tú tuviste.

After all what is brilliance? Merely the tact to sow when no one is looking and reap when every one is.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

Men don't often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.