Quotes About Opportunity

Dark times are the best for dark business,

Perhaps they had discovered that when enemies fall, they leave a hole.

You're young and got dreams ahead of you still. You don't know how it is. One day you're something, so promising and full o' dares, so big the world's too small a place to hold you. Then, 'fore you know it, you're old, and you realize all them things you had in mind you'll never get to. All them doors you felt too big to fit through have already shut. Only one left open and it leads to nothing but nothing.

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

We need an economy that rewards work, not just wealth.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids

Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability.

When you say no to the wrong people, it opens up the space for the right people to come in.

Perception is reality. Certainly I can say that my perception is my reality and your perception is your reality. The challenge is to choose a perception that is most likely to create opportunity.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.

Change is a powerful word and it is completely feasible, if you choose it. When

And anytime a stimulus from your external environment is presented to you—like an opportunity to teach—you've conditioned your body, just as Pavlov conditioned his dogs, to subconsciously and automatically respond to the mind of the past experience. Since

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

I've never believed in luck. If you perform well, execute, have a good race car and a good race team, you're going to increase your chances dramatically of having better results.

The House has passed several bipartisan bills to ensure all Americans have the opportunity to secure a good job to provide for their families. All of these jobs bills deserve the support of our Senators and a strong show of leadership from the president.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

People just have to keep on going, because you never know when something wonderful is going to happen.

One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter.

You just missed a perfectly good opportunity to toast an awful Coldplay T-shirt. If I ever spontaneously combust, I hope I'm holding a whole stack of their CDs.