Quotes About Opportunity

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

And she thinks she is the lucky one because she got to escape

Mind you do your dying right! Most of us only get one chance at it.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

A positive attitude can turn a difficult situation into an opportunity for growth and success.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

The central conclusion is that the American church is dying due to lack of strong spiritual leadership. In this time of unprecedented opportunity and plentiful resources, the church is actually losing influence. The primary reason is the lack of leadership. Nothing is more important than leadership."

The passion of the church and every follower of Christ should be that all peoples have an opportunity to hear, understand, and respond to the gospel.

Missional churches act faithfully and intentionally wherever God gives them opportunity.

Being part of a great adventure is more than just enjoying new experiences; it can also be sticking to a dull, difficult path when our mind and body scream to run off to the right or left. Great adventures often involve tough choices and lonely stands for what we know to be true. They may require forging on when it would be so much easier to turn back. And adventures often come along at inconvenient times. They can seem more like interruptions than exciting opportunities.

All you need is a second in order to succeed or fail

Every brand new day is a new lesson.

Life is too short. Don't walk. Don't run. Fly.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle— And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.