Quotes About Opportunity

We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

Life goes on, along with time, which can bring your behavior, let your luck be good

If I was as rich as a Rockerfeller I'd be Richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.

My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.

The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.

La vida es un pequeño espacio de luz entre dos nostalgias: la de lo que aún no has vivido y la de lo que ya no vas a poder vivir. Y el momento justo de la acción es tan confuso, tan resbaladizo y tan efímero que lo desperdicias mirando con aturdimiento alrededor.

I am proud to be an American. America is a wonderful country.

What I learned best at Miss White's school was that I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

the capacity to be present to everything that is happening, without resistance, creates possibility

Where is the electric socket for possibility, the access to the energy of transformation?

It's All Invented A shoe factory sends two marketing scouts to a region of Africa to study the prospects for expanding business. One sends back a telegram saying, SITUATION HOPELESS STOP NO ONE WEARS SHOES The other writes back triumphantly, GLORIOUS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY STOP THEY HAVE NO SHOES

Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.

The rain in Florida may be bad for us and good for the citrus crop. A canceled flight may wreck our schedule and bring us face to face with our future spouse in the airport lounge. A forest fire may seem to destroy an ecosystem in the short term, yet renew it with vigor for the long term. When a splendid osprey eats a beautiful fish, it is neither good nor bad. Or, it's good for the osprey and bad for the fish. Nature makes no judgment. Humans do.

The door is open. Go!

The door is open. Go. While in prison, I received a dictionary.

It feels ... as though doors were opening all over the world... It's bigger, somehow, the world.

Each day is a new opportunity. I chose to make this day a great one.

I am in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing.

La plupart des gens ne meurent qu'au dernier moment ; d'autres commencent et s'y prennent vingt ans d'avance et parfois davantage.

forks in the road. Going left, and only later realizing that if you'd gone right everything in your life would have been different. Split-second decisions—or ones you had the chance to consider for years. The choice of who to love, what to do, whether to stay together…

She loves you, Mom," Caroline said, telling the truth. "I know, dear. But I wish I'd done more earlier. That I hadn't missed my chance." The words hung in the air, reminding Caroline of the failures of love. People tried so hard, but they often missed the most important connections.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn't.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn't. — Lucille Ball