Quotes About Opportunity

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered.

Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.

As my Dad says in these pages, the success our family has achieved is something no of us takes for granted. It wasn't destined. And we could have just as easily ended up Oklahoma farmers as Hollywood creators. As is so often the way, a few breaks in a different direction, in what might feel like fate would have unfolded along a now unrecognizable path.

It's a great time to be a creator. Trust your creativity.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life is giving them vodka, and have a party.

I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

No is never "no," it's just "no" for now.

There is no time like the present to present the present

historians have largely ignored the opportunity for a new dialogue, and anthropologists have largely ceased to offer it.

Are national boundaries sacred? Are they ordained by God? do the citizens of a rich nation have the right to use their abundant resources just for themselves? Or to keep out immigrants from poor nations who seek greater economic opportunity?

there must be a positive side to this.

I think the best possible social program is a job

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.