Quotes About Opportunity

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.

It's not the job of the teacher to save a child's soul; it is the teacher's job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

Your strongest ally or your greatest teacher may be sitting within reach, unbeknownst to you.

There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go.

I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.

Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.

Sometimes disaster is our teacher. I don't welcome it, but if it comes, there is something to be learned from it.

If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children?

Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.

India is a youthful nation. Can't we think of exporting good teachers?

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

Some day, following the example of men like themselves, said Mr Fraser, the Chinese too would take to Free Trade:

the Jews' religion. Not money, not gold. The diploma. But behind this faith in the diploma there was something else, something more complicated, more secret, and that is that girls in those days, even modern girls, like us, girls who went to school and then to university, were always taught that women are entitled to an education

Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

If you don't take a chance, someone else will give you his luck. And if you get bad luck, then you need to take another chance to turn things from bad to good.

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.

But my main motivation is fear of regret. I worry that if I didn't go, one day I'd look back and wonder, What if I had?

Poor service, bad treatment, no respect - that's the penalty for not speaking English well in America.